Section: The United Kingdom
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Ukraine’s constitutional court attacks anti-corruption laws
IN 2014 UKRAINIANS got so fed up with the grotesque corruption of their political class that they staged a revolution. Since then, reformers have been trying to build institutions to hold the country’s oligarchs and crooked politicians to account. One big victory was establishing an electronic asset-declaration system, an online registry...
Zelensky is fighting back against state capture
Constitutional breach may be justified to reform Ukraine’s top court …read more Source:: Financial...
Who is Hunter Biden? What are the allegations against him, what was on his alleged laptop and what are his links to Ukraine and China?
Joe Biden’s son Hunter, and his business dealings in Ukraine, have been the subject of fierce debate in the build up to the November 2020 presidential race. …read more Source:: London Evening...
Ukraine courts cannot be allowed to throw out anti-corruption gains
Recent rulings undermine the rule of law, weaken our society and economy, and aim to stop our Euro-Atlantic integration …read more Source:: Financial...
How unrest from Kyrgyzstan to Belarus is challenging Russia’s Soviet legacy
A turbulent year in the former USSR is exposing the limits of Moscow’s power. On 6 October, Kyrgyzstan awoke to a revolution almost no one had expected. Overnight, a crowd of demonstrators protesting allegedly rigged parliamentary elections fought off riot police to seize government buildings in the heart of Bishkek, the capital. In images...
Ukraine court strikes blow to anti-corruption efforts
Ruling is part of systematic effort to undermine anti-graft bodies, say campaigners …read more Source:: Financial...
America and the politics of pain
Gravely ill in hospital with sepsis, our writer had a revelation on how Donald Trump transformed the US’s inequalities into a suicidal tribalism. Why has the American government acted in a way that has left more than 200,000 of its citizens dead? Coronavirus has killed more Americans than the Wehrmacht, or the Japanese imperial army, or...
Hunter Biden profile: could Joe Biden’s ‘problem child’ scupper his election hopes?
Description Scandal and addiction have dogged the Democrat’s second son – as Donald Trump has pointed out Credits Mitchell Layton/Getty Images Alt Text Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Hunter Biden talk during a college basketball game in 2010. Scandal and addiction have dogged …read more Source:: The...
An exiled ex-president plans a comeback in Georgia
IN THE GARISH style of a video game, the former Soviet republic of Georgia’s richest man is running around in a suit, knocking out golden coins with his head, when a rotund figure pops out of a chimney, destroying the oligarch and triggering “game over”. The victor—in the mock game—is Mikheil Saakashvili, independent Georgia’s...
Laptop belonging to Joe Biden’s son linked to FBI money laundering probe
Description Hunter and Joe Biden Credits David McNew/Getty Images Alt Text Hunter Biden and Joe Biden walking together. Subpoena indicates that contents of Hunter Biden’s computer are being scrutinised in financial case One-Minute Read …read more Source:: The...
