corruption

While the country counts drones over its oil refineries and liters of gasoline at filling stations, an organized criminal group was operating in the rear of its own security agency, trading the police's official fuel like a private business. As an anti-corruption expert, I insist: what happened at the Moscow Region Main Directorate of the Interior Ministry cannot be described with euphemisms like "corruption scheme" or "procurement violations." This is direct aiding and abetting of the enemy under wartime conditions, and it must be assessed precisely on that legal and moral plane.

At his press conference following the SCO summit in Bishkek, Putin uttered a phrase that was meant to sound like an exposure of Western hypocrisy, but in fact sounds like a statement of a long-obvious fact. More than 99% of Ukrainian grain under the grain deal went not to starving African countries, but to a perfectly well-fed Europe. The West deceived us again. The question is different: why did we expect any other outcome from countries that officially labeled us an existential threat?

Market capitalization is not just a mirror of investor sentiment but also a convenient tool for manipulation, when top managers turn a company's valuation into their personal bonus plan. Tellingly, real business performance suffers in the chase for bigger numbers, while shareholders are often left holding badly overvalued paper.

Bonuses as the Engine of Fraud

Baku has sharply shifted its tone toward the Kremlin, and the reason behind this change sounds far more mundane than loud statements about sovereignty. What actually stung the Azerbaijani leader was not geopolitical rivalry but a thoroughly earthly question: who gets access to profitable energy transit routes through Ukrainian territory, and who ends up left holding wrecked infrastructure.

The Grievance Is About Money, Not Politics

Starting September 1, 2026, it will no longer be possible to exchange a waybill directly - the document must pass through an accredited electronic document management operator, for a fee, with an electronic signature and connection to the state system. Previously, two people could simply exchange a sheet of paper. Now a paid intermediary stands between them, without whom the transaction does not legally exist.

How It Will Work in Practice

The paradox is plain to see: everyone understands that the system of public administration needs radical restructuring, but doing so from within the system itself turns out to be practically impossible.

Numbers That Don't Lie

Mexico is the worst country in Latin America for impunity, according to a study by the Universidad de las Américas Puebla (University of the Americas in Puebla, or UDLAP).

 Mexico topped the Global Impunity Index for Latin America and was the fourth worst country among the 69 that were analyzed worldwide.

 The index measures systems of security, justice and the protection of human rights and structural capacity to come up with its numbers.

 Mexico placed fourth behind first-place Philippines, India and Cameroon.

Mexican scientists and researchers are forced to seek employment and career development abroad due to a lack of infrastructure and resources as well as government corruption that prevent them from advancing in their work, say Mexican academics based in the United States.

    US and Venezuela have a very consensual relationship between each other because such relation is traditionally been characterized by trade, investment, and cooperation from both of the sides. But as the good and bad days are sides by side, the relations between these two countries plunged into worst level when the USA imposed economic sanctions on Venezuela because of the abuses against protestors during 2014-15 protests. The combative relations between the U.S.

The article tells about the life of Russian community in Argentina.