Moscow’s Gold: Russian Corruption in the UK
The UK government is putting national security and democracy at risk by allowing “kleptocrats and human rights abusers to use the City of London to launder their ill-gotten funds to… Read more »
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‘I Accuse’ – Azerbaijan corruption exposed
Allegations of Azerbaijani attempts to buy support from members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) gained significant traction last month with the publication of a report commissioned by… Read more »
Globalization of venality: kleptocracy’s corrosive impact on democracy
With popular dissatisfaction over corruption increasing around the world, the term “kleptocracy” is often used as a catchall to describe any form of corrupt behavior by national elites. Yet transnational… Read more »
Kremlin launches nationwide assaults on Russia’s opposition
Russian police have systematically interfered with the presidential campaign of Russia’s leading political opposition figure Alexei Navalny (left), Human Rights Watch said today: Human Rights Watch interviewed Navalny campaigners in… Read more »
Crisis of confidence roiling liberal democracies?
In the wake of the recent Group of 20 summit, some commentators claimed that the chief threat to liberal democracy was not from the aggressively illiberal despots of Russia, North… Read more »
How to curb kleptocrats’ ‘existential threat to democracy’
The irony is that in the century since the Russian Revolution, the “soft” democracies have endured, and the communist system that has collapsed. But the inheritors of the NKVD mantle—the… Read more »