“A successful democratic experiment in Ukraine presents an existential threat to Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian kleptocracy in Russia,” says detained opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza. It’s his strong conviction that Russia, one… Read more »
The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project has uncovered over $17.5 billion in assets tied to Russia’s ruling oligarchs. The group used its Russian Asset Tracker to look for land,… Read more »
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine highlights the “existential battle between democracy and money,” according to Oliver Bullough, the author of a new paper from the International Forum for Democratic Studies at… Read more »
A new pro-democracy group launched Thursday with an initial focus on Hungary, casting it as the “next battleground state in the global fight to defend democracy,” and Viktor Orban –… Read more »
We hear the word “corruption” and immediately think of kleptocrats being handed suitcases of cash or bribe-taking public officials in developing countries who are living well beyond their meager official… Read more »
President Biden’s democracy promotion agenda includes an anti-corruption strategy with provisions for establishing a kleptocracy asset recovery rewards program to identify illicit funds held in US banks, notes Elizabeth… Read more »
It’s one of the few political problems that unites people across the political spectrum and across the globe, notes Ryan Heath of POLITICO’s Global Translations. But how can we actually… Read more »
At the recent Summit for Democracy, non-governmental actors– among them leading activists and dissidents – implored participating governments to stand up to kleptocracy, according to the official account. In the… Read more »
The growth of London as a center for financial and professional services coincided with the collapse of the USSR and the rise of post-Soviet kleptocracies in the 1990s. These states… Read more »
The Biden administration on Monday unveiled steps to combat corruption globally, including assistance to foreign governments to increase financial transparency and new regulations on U.S. real-estate purchases to prevent money… Read more »