Word: corruption
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...KILLED. Andrei Kozlov, 41, who, as the first deputy chief of Russia's central bank, worked to reform the country's fast-expanding, long-corrupt financial sector-along the way angering "pocket banks" largely controlled by oligarchs; shot by two gunmen outside a soccer arena; in Moscow. In an effort to make the chaotic industry safer, Kozlov cracked down on money laundering, closed shady banks and lobbied to consolidate the nation's 1,200 financial institutions...
...around you almost as soon as you sat down on the cafe's Persian-carpeted floors. These days, the subject rarely comes up. "He's like all the rest of them," says Amin, 22, a motorcycle messenger, using a Farsi version of "them" that's shorthand for the corrupt clerical establishment. "What has he done to solve our problems?" Hashem, his companion, nods at the Iranian cigarettes lying beside him. "Even these are more expensive," he says. "He just repeats slogans and goes on trips...
KILLED. Andrei Kozlov, 41,who as the first deputy chief of Russia's central bank worked to reform the country's fast-expanding, long-corrupt financial sector -- along the way angering "pocket banks" largely controlled by oligarchs; after two gunmen shot him as he left a soccer arena in Moscow. In an effort to make the chaotic industry safer for credit-seeking consumers, Kozlov cracked down on money laundering, closed shady banks and lobbied to consolidate the nation's 1,200 financial institutions...
...were given their own state and it was supported by the West to the same degree as the state of Israel is supported; if we stopped demonizing Iran and Syria; if we opened a meaningful and respectful dialogue with the states of the Middle East; if we stopped supporting corrupt Arab regimes; if Britain and America stopped their gun-running activities; and if Muslim leaders in Britain were making it sufficiently clear in the public forum that the taking of any human life is evil. Jim McCluskey Twickenham, England Anyone with even a casual interest in current affairs could...
...bribery, which carries a possible 15-year sentence, in part because Abramoff and another defendant admitted bribing a public official who has been identified as Ney. Right up until his guilty plea, Ney had always denied wrongdoing, even after Volz pleaded guilty in May. Volz confessed to conspiring to corrupt the congressman and others. After leaving the congressional payroll Volz went into business with Abramoff...