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Political heads continue to roll amid the turmoil sweeping Slovakia in the wake of a journalist’s murder.
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The shadowy figures looming over political life in Romania and Poland offer cautionary tales for Slovakia.
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The incumbent wins landslide victory with record amount of votes after his most serious opponent is banned from running in the election.
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A secret court order details the brokers and companies which allegedly schemed to sell bonds on behalf of the former Ukrainian leader.
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The saga of the miner’s troubled Oyu Tolgoi operation takes another twist.
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Putin supporters were lured to the polls with offers of food, cancer screenings, and the chance to win big prizes.
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Leading Russian independent media refuse to report from parliament as long as journalists’ sexual harassment claims are not treated seriously.
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The defendants include a former interior minister and several lawmakers allegedly involved in a violent parliament brawl last April.
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As thousands protest, regional governor says his main job is to quell opposition unrest.
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The citizens of Hungary and Bulgaria must learn again how to cultivate media freedom before once fertile ground turns irreversibly into a journalistic wasteland.
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While ruling party and far-right run anti-immigration campaigns, mainstream opposition groups are banking on anti-corruption platform.
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Report stressed the need to tackle high-level graft, recover the money lost in the ‘theft of the century,’ and prosecute the culprits.
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This paper analyzes how corruption is measured and presents some doubts connected with various measurements. It starts by discussing the complex and unclear epistemic status of the concept of corruption. Then it briefly reviews the different types of data used to estimate levels of corruption. The next section examines major recognized indicators and indexes. Finally, some of their specific qualities are analyzed to show their limitations and the mistakes made by inappropriate use of these instruments.
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On the 2nd of December, 2010, the new norm which criminalizes illicit enrichment was added to the Criminal Code of Republic of Lithuania (further – the CC). The content of this crime is having an asset which can not be justified by person‘s legal income. According to explanatory report, such measure has been established because of prevention, herewith to pursue reduction of profit and attraction which originated from corrupt and economic crimes. At first sight it seems like this is a very simple norm which is easy to apply. However, after the legal research, case law and statistic data review, it can be claimed that there are many issues related to this norm. Scholars who analyzed the norm of illicit enrichment raised a lot of relevant questions related to responsibility and the nature of this crime. Is the offense defined appropriately and clearly? Is the value of the asset as the subject of crime of illicit enrichment adequate? Can this crime exist independently with no overlap to other crimes from which the person got rich? Should it be the special subject provided in this offense according to the recommendation of United Nations Convention against Corruption?The article 1891 of the CC according to the content and expression is not traditional indeed. This can be confirmed by fact, that many Courts of Republic of Lithuania have already referred to the Constitutional Court of Republic of Lithuania in order to clarify out does the norm of illicit enrichment object to Constitution and to constitutional principles. It is important to notice that on the 15th of March, 2017, during the writing process of this article, the Constitutional Court published the act in which were analyzed five applications of Lithuanian Courts with the requests to investigate does the first section in article 1891 of the CC object to Constitution and to constitutional principle – the rule of law. Thus, the purpose of this article is to answer a question does the norm of illicit enrichment which is established in article 1891 of the Criminal Code of Republic of Lithuania object to the special principles of criminal law.The consist of illicit enrichment crime is analyzed in the first section of this article. The norm of illicit enrichment, which is established in article 1891 of the Criminal code of Republic of Lithuania, with respect to the special principles of criminal law is analyzed in the second section of this article.It is concluded that prosecution of person in committing illicit enrichment crime by negligence would infringe the provisions of one of the most important special principles of criminal law – “nullum crimen sine culpa”. Assessing the analyzed norm through the provisions of “ultima ratio” principle, it must be held that Lithuanian legislator chose the incorrect measure to combat against corrupt and economic criminality.
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Corruption occurs at all levels of governance in Indonesia, including both central and local governments. In particular, corruptive behavior at the local level has involved either executive or legislative officials, who, ironically, have mostly implicated executive heads in some local governments. As a matter of fact, studies regarding discretion as a factor that may cause corruption have rarely been conducted. Therefore, this paper attempts to highlight how the corruptive behavior of the regional heads in Indonesia is mainly related to their discretionary powers. To achieve the objectives, this study involves case studies on five corruption cases handled by the country’s Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) that were legally binding. The results show that those corruptions have occurred as a result of democratic sociological factors, which may relate to the cost of local elections, a significant number of requests for financial assistance from constituents and a lack of capacity of the heads of regions under observation. Practically, the corruptive behavior appears to be conducted by abusing one’s authority for personal gain. Therefore, the behavior occurs not as a result of discretion despite the existence of some aspects relating to discretion.
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Six months into his term, President Jeenbekov is putting his own stamp on the country, dismaying his predecessor.
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Two liberals are fighting for the chance to oust Kremlin man Sobyanin from one of Russia’s most powerful elected posts.
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The former president and six-time prime minister hailed result as "another important victory for Montenegro's European future."
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Profits from real estate investments in a Romanian city then sent back to Italy to finance mafia activities, reports say.
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