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breakingnews
13.08.2010, 17:48
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Kyrgyzstan’s former president Askar Akayev has been stripped of his immunity. The first president of Kyrgyzstan has been deprived of his ex-presidential status as well.
09.05.2009, 09:44
The political standoff in Georgia shows no sign of easing after talks aimed at getting President Saakashvili to meet his opponents failed on Friday night. Meanwhile, a spy hunt is in full swing in the country.
29.06.2010, 15:36
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A US court has refused to grant bail to ten people arrested on suspicion of spying for Russia.
20.08.2010, 17:05
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Following intense pressure from Washington, a Thai appeals court has decided to extradite alleged arms dealer Viktor Bout to the United States.
Viktor Bout case
27.10.2009, 02:10
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Radovan Karadzic tried to invoke an immunity agreement with Richard Holbrook to prove that the Hague tribunal has always been a political instrument of the US government, says historian and journalist Neboisja Malic.
02.03.2010, 23:57
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On the second day of his defense, wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic claimed major events in the Bosnian war from 1992 to 1995 were fabricated to malign the Serb community.
24.05.2010, 17:07
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A UK news website claims Israel intended to sell nuclear weapons to apartheid South Africa, but Jerusalem denies the charges.
30.06.2010, 03:13
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Two out of the ten people who are in federal custody, accused of acting as Russian intelligence agents, lived in Arlington, VA near the Pentagon.
14.07.2010, 15:26
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President Dmitry Medvedev has said that so far the fight against corruption has brought no significant results and has called for more efficient measures, including the possibility of multiple fines for bribers.
25.08.2010, 18:19
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To many people, Julian Assange, 39, is the personification of people power, brought to the very door of the powers-that-be with the introduction of the omnipresent Internet.
Published: 28 July, 2010, 17:24
Edited: 28 July, 2010, 23:39
As the average sum of a bribe increases, the police have stepped up efforts in fighting high-level corrupt officials, analysts say.
I wonder if some of those analysts are right, that the size of bribes increases as the number drops? We will see if the numbers really are dropping - it could be another year or two before anybody will know for sure. This whole controversy is probably good for the anti-corruption campaign. Let everything be discussed out in the open, because bribe takers like the cover of darkness. The more that corrupt officials are brought out into the open, the higher chance there will be of changing public perception that "everybody does it".