corruption
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Kolomoisky arrest is 'key test' of Zelensky's anti-corruption campaign
The arrest of Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky on 2 September is seen as a definite break with the old ways of doing business. By
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Dismissals of corrupt officials to reassure Ukrainians and the West
The wave of dismissals of high placed Ukrainian officials show that pressure from the West and from civil society grows. -
Navalny holds up a mirror to our own hypocrisy
On October 5, at the Warsaw Security Conference political prisoner Alexei Navalny was awarded the 2021 Knight of Freedom Award. The former Estonian president Toomas Hendrik Ilves held the laudatio. Instead of pronouncing obvious words of praise for Navalny, Ilves lambasts the West that helps criminal politicians and oligarchs to rob their people. -
Korolev’s coronation and the rise of the ruthless in the FSB
Colonel General Sergei Korolev, appointed as the new First Deputy Director of the Federal Security Service (FSB), is connected with organised crime in Russia. This was probably a deciding factor in finally elevating him. -
Film shows Lukashenko's luxurious life: cars, castles, planes and watches
The Polish-based Belarusian opposition news outlet Nexta on March 8 has published an investigative film about Alexander Lukashenko's luxurious life, reminiscent of Alexei Navalny's YouTube film Putin's Castle. Within a week the film (Lukashenko, Goldmine) was watched by 5,5 million viewers. Lukashenko dismissed it as rubbish and cheap photoshopping. 'I didnot steal anything from my state.' -
Can Zelensky still push back the anti-reform forces he allowed to rebuild?
Ukraine's president Zelensky faces a legal and constitutional crisis engineered by anti-reform forces in the country. He has belatedly promised to fight back, to try and save what is left of his presidency. But his options are limited. -
The real fight for democracy starts when the dictators are gone
Three times Russian journalist Ekaterina Sergatskova had to flee: first from Russia, then from Crimea and now from Ukraine. Her last flight was caused by threats after she published a story about the links between Ukrainian neo-nazi's and the wellknown post-Maidan fact-checker StopFake. In this columnshe warns the West that overcoming dictatorship doesn't automatically mean that democracy will blossom. -
Top 5 of Navalny´s most popular corruption exposés
Russian opposition activist Aleksei Navalny in Berlin is recovering from the murder attempt with nerve agent novichok in Tomsk. He is walking again, adressing his followers and determined to return to Russia. In July Navalny was forced to dissolve his Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), because he lost a lawsuit against one of his targets, 'Putin's Chef' Yevgeny Prigozhin. But he and his people continue to investigate corruption at the highest levels of the Russian government. -
'Russian corruption can and should be fought'
One of the most well-known Russian economists, Sergei Guriev, spoke about Russian corruption and Western enablement at De Rode Hoed in Amsterdam on October 16. He explained the effects of corruption on the Russian economy and citizens, and what the West should do to fight it. -
Economist Guriev speaks to popular vlogger Dud about his flight from Russia
Economist Sergei Guriev, who will hold the third RaamopRusland ‘October Lecture’ on October 16 in Amsterdam, recently gave an interview to one of Russia’s most popular vloggers, Yuri Dud. The vlogger is becoming more politically outspoken and supported the protest wave against election fraud this summer in Moscow. -
Only radical reforms can stop Russian economic stagnation
This August marks 20 years that Vladimir Putin is in power. The first decade produced an unprecedented growth, but this rapidly declined after Putin halted reforms. Sergey Guriyev doesn't believe in recovery unless Putin reduces the state's role and protects property rights. -
Corruption bothers Russians, but is 'inherent'
A recent survey by
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Alarm about horrific attacks on Ukrainian activists led to outcry in Kyiv
In one and a half year 55 activists in Ukraine were attacked by unknown assailants for their fight against corruption. Arrests were
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Putin will elevate loyalty over all in his next presidency
Is Putin’s grip on power still as strong as ever? Some observers are beginning to think not, presenting him as some kind of a 'lame
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Navalny’s real nemesis is corruption, not Putin
With an exposé on Putin's corruption Alexei Navalny targets the Man at the Top directly. Navalny is not in jail and Putin is
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Forget the Saakashvili scandal. Ukrainian democracy is in danger
Ukrainian president Poroshenko's time runs out. Voters have grown impatient with pervasive corruption and the suffocating
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Why Navalny should stop protesting
On June 12 Alexei Navalny again succeeded in bringing people to the streets in Russia. But street protest is no political
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Protests show: corruption in Russia remains Putin’s biggest threat
Corruption is one of Russia's biggest problems. But it is not the street-level bribe, but institutionalised nepotism, that
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Young activists in Russia face an uphill fight for change
Unlike in the rest of Europe, the Russian middle class is not a motor of change, according to Russian social researchers. It has no
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Three years after Maidan the revolution in Ukraine is not over yet
Three years ago the Maidan demonstrations ended in blood and with the flight of president Yanukovich to Russia. Young Ukrainians,
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