June 13th, 2014
A new report in
The Economist goes to great lengths to detail the corrupt regime of
ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, as well as the broader systematic corruption that has plagued the country since the end of the Soviet era.
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May 30th, 2014
Last week Ukrainians
cast their ballots for a new president. It was the first election for the position since the nation ousted its allegedly-corrupt former President, Viktor Yanukovych.
Before he fled to Russia, Yanukovych lived on 340 acres of land on the banks of the river Dnieper in Ukraine. His former home, a five story mansion named Mezhyhiriya, is decorated with marble, crystal, and precious woods. It is difficult to overstate the
luxury of this palatial building. Its cedar doors are worth $64,000, the wall...
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March 21st, 2014
No need to worry, the 27th edition of TaxCast is here! The ever-interesting podcast produced by our colleagues at the
Tax Justice Network can be viewed in the embedded video below.
You can also view it on YouTube
here.
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March 20th, 2014
This article, written by the FTC’s EU campaigner, Koen Roovers, originally appeared on OpenDemocracy.net. There’s an old saying that the legislative process is a lot like making sausages – it’s confusing, messy, and you don’t really want to know how it’s done. The European institutions in Brussels, the butcher shop in this case, decide how
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