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Ukraine decides against sending reporter back to Azerbaijan, where he faces charges similar to those thrown at other regime critics.
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After ruling Armenia with a firm hand for a decade, Armenian’s leader bows to people power. Opposition leader to speak tonight.
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Local authorities are also widening probe into corruption in the capital and other cities.
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The paper presents the results of empirical research that includes the opinions and attitudes of citizens, members of civil society organizations, as well as representatives of the municipal, city, cantonal, entity, state and government of District Brčko of B&H, civil society organizations and civil society in general in post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina.The research sample is 670 respondents, who cover three target groups: citizens,elected representatives of authorities on all levels in B & H and representatives of civil society. The research was conducted in two phases in the period from September 2014 until May 2016.After the presentation of research methodology, analysis and presentation of results of empirical research, based on the subject and goal of the research, this paper gives a conclusion about the establishment and development of civil society in postDayton B & H, as well as 10 recommendations for further development of civilsociety in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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This paper replaces previous attempts to find a universal definition of corruption with a comprehensive, pragmatic approach. Corrupt action is differentiated into basic elements, techniques, and aspects which together work to build corruption and situate it within a social context. Specifically, corruption is analyzed on three levels: Basic elements of corruption, including social resources, roles, and effects; Basic corruption techniques that facilitate corrupt exchanges, neutralize norms that impede corrupt exchange, preserve secrets of corrupt exchange, teach people to become accustomed to corruption and, finally, prevent disclosure of the people involved. Aspects of isomorphism between forms of social and corruptive exchange--first, the infiltration of market categories, such as profit, profitableness, competitiveness, efficiency, etc. in the relations of public officers with citizens; second, isomorphism between the dominant forms of cultural exchange and corrupt exchange. Methodologically, this paper expands previous broad "neo-classical approaches" to corruption in two directions. First, it centers these approaches on relations between principal, agent, and client and opens these same relations to all aspects of social analysis. Second, it connects corruption, not only with political conflicts, but also with natural processes and conflicts which build social life and history.
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Former members of the Council of Europe’s assembly accused of taking money, gifts to further interests of Baku regime.
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The verdict will be announced next week in a trial that has rattled the upper echelons of the Turkish political elite, but it was a brave woman’s tweets that broke the media’s silence over the case.
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Increasing violence against journalists from the Balkan country draws widespread condemnation from the international community.
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While dismal media freedom rankings for TOL’s coverage region are commonplace this time of the year, the recent surge in citizen activism shows that people are no longer so willing to grin and bear such infringements.
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Six months after Ankara banned all public LGBTI events, not much has changed – including the determination of the community to fight back. Here's the view from a young Turkish LGBTI activist and journalist.
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The article deals with the topic of national security under the influence of corruption phenomenon in society. The author points out the areas endangered with corruption in Poland and undertakes the prognosis of evaluation of this above mentioned crime. In the case study the author tables the aspect of political corruption which can distort basics of national security.
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In this study, the reasons underlying aggressive or nonaggressive attitudes of employees exposed to mobbing were investigated. For this purpose, employees were identified who aggressively responded to mobbing or did not show an aggressive response to five different mobbing behaviors in the form of ‘effecting the victim’s possibilities to maintain personal reputation, physical health, possibilities to maintain social contacts, possibilities to communicate adequately, and occupational situation’, in the sample of 169 employees in the health sector. It was then investigated via discriminant analysis how personal and working life characteristics could be exploited in the differentiation of groups of aggressive and unaggressive employees. Results have been obtained that the employees who react aggressively to mobbing and who are unaggressive are divided into different groups according to their marital status, tenure, education status, and management status. Finally, in line with the results of the research, some suggestions have been made to investigate the subject of the search with different variables.
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Currently, the Ministry of National Education pays special attention to preventative, educational and resocialization activities at school. School heads and teachers are obliged to prevent moral corruption of the young and to cooperate with the police. The aim of this article is to present cooperation of schools with the police. To begin with, the scope of the meaning of the term ,,moral corruption of the young” and the etiology of the phenomenon are described. One also points to the ,,actual extent of moral corruption of the young” as recorded in the police statistics. Then, the fundamental tasks of the school concerning prevention of moral corruption of the young are presented as well as the areas and ways of cooperation of school employees with the police on preventing moral corruption among the young.
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The life of modern man, globalization and technology, leads us into the era of ever increasing openness of data vs. the conspiracy of the committed offence. The use of special investigative actions, moving on the edge of human rights protection, is the only means of defense against the plight of the modern world - corruption as part of organized crime. Legislative precision + procedural correctness + education and courage = adequate response.
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Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Uzbekistan, this article looks at the way official state narratives are challenged by silent, unorganised, often unaware gestures of resistance at the bottom of a society. Footing on a framework suggested by Scott’s definition of infrapolitics (2012), we propose to incorporate informal practices in a definition of informality that is more inclusive and better explains the anatomy of a modern state, whose functioning rests on a combination of formal and informal practices. We suggest that this everyday dimension is of particular importance here when trying to understand the governance trajectories, as it allows to look critically, and from a broader perspective, at situations where individual and state perception of events, but also individual and state morality, diverge.By doing this, we propose that governance in transition states and societies may be regarded as a space where formal institutions and citizens (or informal institutions) compete for power and resources and thereby produce informal, alternative ‘legal orders’ and mechanisms that regulate public life in a given area. We will suggest that such a space of informal negotiation is vital in contexts where collective mobilisation and public articulation of social claims is not a preferred, or even available, strategy for citizens.
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This present study treats some aspects regarding the exercise of public office, from the perspective of criminal law and criminal procedural law. The violation of criminal legal norms, including by civil servants, leads to the appearance of one right conflict, the solution of which presupposes to draw the criminal liability of the perpetrator, following the deployment of a whole of activities that are part of the criminal proceeding. Applying the sanction corresponding to the criminal norm violated presupposes so therefore a criminal trial, which is why is useful one analysis, from the perspective criminal procedural law, of some aspects which visa the criminal liability of the civil servants. So that starting with a little theoretical considerations regarding of the intimation ways of the criminal prosecution bodies, stipulated by law to be possible to begin a criminal trial, then this study continues with the approach, including by reference to aspects of judicial practice, of the conditions in which may be engaged the civil servant's criminal liability to committing the offense of omission of the referral.
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Corruption is an important issue disrupting the social order especially in developing countries, creating unrest among people and shaking the very foundation of the economy. In developing countries including Turkey, corruption is a frequently encountered problem, particularly in public affairs - like public procurement of goods, services, construction work or property. The Public Procurement Law numbered 4734 was introduced in 200 with a view to preventing corruption and creating a supply legislation that is more competitive, transparent and based on equal treatment. As yet, it is not possible to claim that the underlying goal has been achieved in a strict sense. This study attempts to shed a light on the corruption risks in laws enacted in the context of public expenditure; Open Tendering Procedure, Tendering Procedures Between Certain Bidders, The Negotiation Procedure, Public Private Partnership Model and Direct Supply Procedures which has been organized as a recruitment method in Public Procurement Law numbered 4734. Recommendations for the prevention of corruption are presented.
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The phenomenon of nepotism belongs to the almost unknown aspect of the Hungarian county administration, although familial and personal ties represented crucial elements of political culture in the early modern period. State and local offices became ideal places for applying such personal ties and relations into practice. The state maintained a neutral attitude towards nepotism until the first half of the 18th century and no intervention was made against it in the county administration. However, with the ascension of Maria Theresa to the Hungarian throne, county accountants were to keep thorough accounting. County written agenda became a demanding job that required educated officials. Therefore when nominating new officials the comes had to take into account their education rather than his family ties. By this way the new requirements could be considered as an indirect means of eliminating nepotism. In the milieu of the Hungarian counties the main responsibility amongst the rich catholic county nobility for maintaining nepotism lay on the vicecomes. Composition of the county magistrate could be - depending on preferences of the vicecomes - influenced by factors such as number of offspring, religious denomination or specific family background and the size of their possession. Gradually, "a county officials' family circle" was formed. It was composed of all those vicecomes subordinate officials who were related to him either by blood or their children had the vicecomes or somebody of his closest family for a godfather or godmother. In order to achieve the biggest proportion of "family officials" and ensure continuity of existing "familial web," the blood relation between changing vicecomeses had to be as close as possible. Familial ties were so strong that vicecomeses of both - the Liptov and the Orava Counties were related in some way, closely, distantly or by marriage. The vicecomes of the Orava County had "his men" in the Liptov County and vice versa - the vicecomes of the Liptov County in the Orava County. It was predominantly three generations of the Okolicsányi family that created and maintained the familial web of officials in the both Counties.
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This article will focus on the thesis that the structure of the apartment is used as a representation of society in Memduh Şevket Esendal’s novel Ayaşlı ile Kiracıları and Haldun Taner’s long story Ay Işığında “Çalışkur.” It will be emphasized that the authors, through the stories of people who live together yet in separate flats, aim to portray the human landscape of the country by choosing the structure of the apartment as the space for their work, and while Memduh Şevket Esendal displays the social change in the first ten years of the Republic, Haldun Taner reflects the change in Turkey throughout the 1950’s. In addition, the article puts forward that this configuration of space determines the formal structure of the works. It will be shown that the authors advance the moral corruption that they have observed in a part of the society within the framework of a critique of modernity.
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