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From Panama Papers to impeachments: 2016 rocked by corruption scandals
PANAMA CITY: From the Panama Papers to the impeachments of the presidents of Brazil and South Korea, 2016 was a year marked by corruption scandals, and by rising public outrage over graft. The question is, will that translate into a lasting demand for cleaner politics? “A new phenomenon” is being seen, said Jose Ugaz, a renowned Peruvian lawyer...
US expands sanctions against Russia
The United States on Tuesday slapped additional sanctions on eight more entities and seven individuals linked to the conflict in Ukraine. …read more Source: China Internet Information...
US sanctions companies, people over Russia actions in Ukraine
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US sanctions companies, people over Russia actions in Ukraine
[WASHINGTON] The United States on Tuesday targeted more Russian businessmen and companies over Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the conflict in Ukraine, slapping them with US sanctions in a move Moscow criticised as hostile. …read more Source: The Business...
U.S. government loses to Russia’s disinformation campaign: advisers
Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during his annual state of the nation address at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, December 1, 2016. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo The U.S. government spent more than a decade preparing responses to malicious hacking by a foreign power but had no clear strategy when Russia launched a...
Identity-based federalism: Decentralisation is a better option
Sharing sovereignty, providing autonomy to a complex, costly and inequality raising, national integration-threatening system of identity-based federalism is an unbearable risk for Nepal Identity-based politics is turning out to be a reality for South Asia. Nepal is at the juncture to accept it or leap forward to continue the famed existence of...
Russia says new U.S. sanctions are hostile acts, promises response
MOSCOW (Reuters) – New U.S. sanctions on Russia over the Ukraine conflict are hostile acts by the outgoing Obama administration and Russia will expand its sanctions lists against the United States in response, Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told TASS news agency. …read more Source: The...
U.S. sanctions companies, people over Russia actions in Ukraine
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Tuesday blacklisted seven Russian businessmen and eight companies and government enterprises over Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the conflict in Ukraine, the U.S. Treasury said in a statement, moves Moscow called “hostile acts.” …read more Source: The...
U.S. sanctions companies, people over Russia actions in Ukraine
WASHINGTON – The United States on Tuesday blacklisted seven people and eight companies and government enterprises over Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the conflict in Ukraine, the U.S. Treasury said in a statement. In addition, it named 26… …read more Source:...
US blacklists seven Russian businessmen, eight companies over Moscow’s actions in Ukraine
The United States on Tuesday blacklisted seven Russian businessmen and eight companies and government enterprises over Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the conflict in Ukraine, the US Treasury said in a statement. The sanctions come a month before US President Barack Obama hands over power to President-elect Donald Trump, who has praised...
