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  Pravda.RU:International corruption watchdog reports improvements in Russia
Russia is seen as slightly less corrupt now than last year, but is still atthe bottom of the ranking conducted by the Berlin-based TransparencyInternational corruption watchdog.Russia tied with Tanzania, India, Zimbabwe, Cote d'Ivoire and Honduras for71st place out of 102 countries included in the annual CorruptionPerceptions Index.
Finland took the first place in the ranking as the leastcorrupt country, and Bangladesh was the last.
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english.pravda.ru /society/2002/08/30/35619_.html   (148 words)

  
 Inter Press Service News Agency
Activists also suggest that African nations should be able to judge the corporations working in their countries.
Civil society groups, including CorpWatch, TransparencyInternational and Global Witness, have accused multinationals of tolerating, if not encouraging, the malpractices of some of their African intermediaries to win contracts.
Last year, Canadian engineering consulting firm Acres International was convicted in a Lesotho High Court of paying bribes through an intermediary to win contracts on a multi-billion-dollar dam project.
www.ipsnews.net /sendnews.asp?idnews=18719   (796 words)

  
 cam_elections_old_rivals091304   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
During that time, the country, which produces cocoa, coffee, timber, cotton and some offshore oil, has known only two leaders; founding president Ahmadou Ahidjo and Biya, who succeeded him peacefully in
However, there is now a very real threat of a split between conservatives and progressives within the ruling party, which is accused by critics, including the international corruption watchdog TransparencyInternational, of presiding over one of the most corrupt governments in Africa.
Mila Assouta, a virulent critic of Biya on the progressive wing of the party, announced last month that he planned to run for the presidency on a CPDM ticket.
www.africanindependent.com /cam_elections_old_rivals091304.html   (703 words)

  
 U2 NEWS SERVICE - The Nation : Chunga's Stand Not the Way Out of Graft   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Numerous other reports have come in similar vein.
TransparencyInternational, the anti-corruption watchdog, rates the Judiciary in thesame league as the police in the corruption stakes.
There is the misleading impression created by the Chief Justice’sbacklash that the Commonwealth judges descended from the blue,like malignant bats.
www.u2world.com /news/article.php3?id_article=16036   (1006 words)

  
 Freedom Wings: On Global Strategic Competition- A Ghanaian diasporean reacts
You do not understand the nature of global competition.
If you did, you would realize the reasons why places like Niger sit atnumber 122 in the world with a score at 2.2 in the TransparencyInternational's CPI (Corruption Perception Index), and yet it takes anOxfam European young woman to be teaching the local people how to digand set up water wells.
Perhaps you might be asking why the West doesnot help those poor people by helping them to survive on their own, butrather go in and dig Uranium, a mineral whose use is in making Nuclearweapons!
wingsoffreedomandjustice.blogspot.com /2005/08/on-global-strategic-competition.html   (1647 words)

  
 Pravda.RU International corruption watchdog reports improvements in Russia
The city's authorities are interested in the soonest implementation of theproject on organizing a cruise line between St. Petersburg and Helsinki,Alexander Prokhorenko, deputy governor of St. Petersburg and head of thecity's foreign relations committee, declared commenting on the situationaround this project, the press service of the St. Petersburg administrationreported More details...
Russia is seen as slightly less corrupt now than last year, but is still atthe bottom of the ranking conducted by the Berlin-based TransparencyInternational corruption watchdog.Russia tied with Tanzania, India, Zimbabwe, Cote d'Ivoire and Honduras for71st place out of 102 countries included in the annual CorruptionPerceptions Index More details...
Terrorists try to buy military armour equipment in Moscow region
newsfromrussia.com /society/2002/08/30/35619.html   (2191 words)

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