Crony -- and Corrupt -- Politics

Cyprus: Cyprus to limit president's immunity from prosecution Reuters (TI mention) Cyprus plans to limit presidential immunity from prosecution and increase government transparency, its president said on Monday, a move to win over a public jaded by ...

Cyprus has for decades been a favorite place for Russian businessmen to place their savings and for corrupt Russian officials to stash ill-gotten gains. Like all deposits in Cyprus, that money is

NBER Working Paper No. 19019 NBER Program(s): ITI In this paper we analyze the link between corruption money laundering and round-trip investment via offshore jurisdictions utilizing Russian firm-level data. In particular we empirically explore ...

Transparency International - Cyprus has published its 3rd Annual Corruption Perception Survey. The findings indicated that the general public is concerned that politicians at national and local level as well as officials awarding public tender ...

A report made public on Friday by the Council of Europe's Group of States Against Corruption (GRECO) highlights inadequate transparency in political financing in Cyprus and calls on Nicosia to provide explanations as to how it plans to abide by ...

Women of the Wall's chairwoman talks about her group's strategy, the corruption of the Chief Rabbinate and the Jewish culture of arguing. Arrests and haredim will not stop her from carrying the banner. ANAT HOFFMAN and MKs Tamar Zandberg (Meretz), ...

When the Cyprus bank crisis hit, this column warned that the precedent set by seizing people's savings would not be lost on Washington politicians. Hardly had the digital ink dried than President Obama was unveiling his budget proposal to bar people ...

(MENAFN - Qatar News Agency) Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades has announced sweeping reforms in a bid to bolster government accountability, including lifting immunity from prosecution for the president and other politicians. He outlined the ...

" / LJUBLJANA, Slovenia - Slovenian officials have a message for the world: Don't panic we won't be the next to fall. The tiny European Union member is trying to convince its people and foreign investors that it won't be the next in line for a ...