Corruption

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Ингушские Ученые Покоряют Мир

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В ходе написания статьи для Спутника об уровнях IQ по регионам Росссии, заметил вот эту удивительную статистику из переписи 2010 года. Процент населения с послевузовским образованием: Ингушетия: 1.59% Москва: 1.12% … Чечня: 0.32% То есть регион с самым высоким уровнем безработицы, самым низким уровнем проникновения Интернета, и самым низким уровнем патентов на душу населения; регион, который

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Politics

Митинг в Москве: Лечение хуже Болезни

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Вчера я был на митинге Навального в Москве. Мне, конечно, не нравится, что Медведев (и вообще вся российская элита в целом) наживается на деньгах русских налогоплательщиков. Но проблема в том, что как лечение, навальниада хуже болезни. Во-первых, Навальный элементарно “ненаш,” так как не согласен с #крымнаш. С требованием провести второй референдум, он фактически признает, что для него,

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Politics

Kettle, Meet Pot

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“Corruption across EU ‘breathtaking’ – EU Commission” says a headline in the BBC. The Commissioner responsible for the report said that she believed the cost of corruption was “probably much higher” than the €120 billion (US$162 billion) the report estimates. And indeed that is probably correct because corruption within EU organs themselves was not included.

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Society

Shredding Sochi… in a Good Way

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After a long break, a new contribution to the Experts Panel: Shredding Sochi… in a Good Way Western journalists have been in the business of dismissing Russian achievements and magnifying Russian failures ever since Putin drove them into a collective derangement syndrome – he even haunts their dreams, as recently revealed by the Guardian’s Shaun Walker –

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Society

Serdyukov is Charged

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Here is the discussion at this on The Russia Debate. My friend and DR commentator Alexander Mercouris correctly predicted this outcome – that Serdyukov would be charged, but that it is a complex case that will take a long time and likely avoid more the more serious allegations in favor of those that can be

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Society

Translation: Why Didn’t Transparency International Reveal Russia’s Bribery Data?

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Why was there no bribery incidence data for Russia in Transparency International’s international survey of 2013? Andrey Kamenetsky at Odnako connects the dots to argue that it was simply because the results were too inconvenient to serve as propaganda. A Crisis of Zombification: How Transparency International failed on The Russia Corruption Rating Dear Readers! In July there

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Society

Corruption, The American Way

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So apparently an Ambassadorship costs $1.8 million per post in the US. In virtually any other country, even where the situation with corruption is quite dismal, such arrangements would be seen as unquestionably corrupt. And yet the US scores an entirely respectable 73/100 in Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), leagues above say Italy which gets

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Society

GCB2013 Released

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Here it is. Or just skip the graphics and download the data in Excel here. I can’t say I care much about most of it. Of course most people everything think corruption is “increasing,” because they are a grumpy lot. What does matter is the number of people who report paying a bribe in the

Society

Cheating In The Unified State Exams

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Izvestia writes: The Ministry of Education have evaluated the results of the Unified State Exam of 2013 and identified the regions with the highest numbers of graduates who got the full 100 points on the Unified State Exam. Contrary to popular prejudices, the recordholders aren’t the Caucasian republics, but Bryansk oblast, Kalmykia, and Chuvashia. I

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Society

Storm In A BVI Teacup

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If you remember a couple of weeks ago, the Internet was rocked – for a total of about one or two days – by a wave of leaks from the ICIJ about the identities of offshore account holders in the British Virgin Islands. What juicy revelations did we have about the henchmen of the kleptocratic Putin regime?

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