How Putin made corruption great again
Russian police arbitrarily detained hundreds of people during peaceful protests on June 12, 2017, in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Human Rights Watch said today: Riot police in both cities used… Read more »
Category: KLEPTOCRACY
Angola’s kleptocracy resisting greater scrutiny
Angola’s reconstruction and oil boom presented the politically connected — those with “relatives in the kitchen,” as Angolans say — with a golden opportunity for self-enrichment. In an economy driven… Read more »
Kleptocrats without borders: Putin on defensive against corruption
A new poll released this week reveals a lot about how Russians view President Vladimir Putin. A whopping 87 percent of those surveyed say they trust him to represent their nation on… Read more »
Russia’s ‘surreal’ protests show fraying of social contract
The latest wave of protests in Russia is too diverse and divergent to be unified by a single political leader, platform, or slogan—though there is one motto that people… Read more »
Weaponizing Kleptocracy: Putin’s Hybrid Warfare
Soon after Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, experts began using the term “hybrid warfare” to describe the threat posed by the Kremlin to neighboring countries. In Weaponizing Kleptocracy: Putin’s… Read more »
Kleptocracy ‘not a domestic problem’: corruption’s devastating consequences
Massive protests in Venezuela, Tunisia, Brazil, Morocco, and the Dominican Republic [and Slovakia, left] over the last few weeks have highlighted political graft around the globe, and the ensuing instability… Read more »
Russia’s disinformation campaign exposed in new report
Researchers have discovered an extensive international hacking campaign that steals documents from its targets and repackages them as disinformation aimed at undermining civil society and democratic institutions, according to a study released… Read more »
Counting the cost of corruption: citizen movements demanding transparency
Thousands of Moroccans marched in a northern town to protest against injustice and corruption this week, Reuters reports: Political protests are rare in Morocco, but tensions in al-Hoceima have been… Read more »
Time to make countering kleptocracy a priority
Following the ousting of Pravin Gordhan as South Africa’s finance minister in the recent cabinet reshuffle and the downgrade by ratings agencies, fears that South Africa under President Jacob Zuma… Read more »
Combating kleptocracy
Is an International Anti-Corruption Court the Answer? 12 noon – March 27, 2017 Aspen Institute, 1 Dupont Circle NW, Suite 700, Washington, D.C. RSVP