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...Bangaru Laxman, president of the ruling Baharatiya Janata Party, was implicated in a bribery scandal that has exposed rampant graft in India's corridors of power, and was forced to resign. That Laxman's name in the headlines symbolized the depth of the rot in Indian politics, where although bribery has become a way of life, national security had been assumed to be above the dictates of greed - an assumption trashed by the scandal that revealed an extensive web of corruption in weapons procurement...
...Indians are sick of corruption in government, but they've also learned to accept it as a fact of life. But what still gets people very angry is when guns and graft come together. That's viewed as venality that compromises national security. The late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi suffered a humiliating electoral defeat in 1989 after he was accused of accepting kickbacks from a howitzer deal with Swedish arms manufacturer Bofors. The Bofors scandal still haunts the Congress Party...
...Mikhailov, these rejectees have not been proved guilty of any specific crime that would warrant their exclusion. Yet perhaps it is good that they must stay home. Too many of the Russian high and mighty have used their positions over the past decade of reform to line their pockets. Graft is universal. Last year an estimated $24.6 billion left Russia, money garnered mostly through bribery, kickbacks and outright theft and sent to private accounts in offshore banks. That's an increase of 30% over 1999, and the total capital drain from Russia over the past decade is more than...
...country faces immense challenges. Even before charges were filed against Estrada, sending the peso into a death spiral, economic growth had stalled while debt had soared to record levels, throwing new IMF relief into doubt. Graft and corruption remain endemic in the Philippines, and they were focal points in Estrada's trial. Century-old demands by Muslim secessionists for an independent Mindanao had quieted at the end of the previous presidency, Fidel Ramos', but flared anew under the erratic management of the Estrada administration. But that...
...defense minister quit over her decision to retain as national security adviser a former military chief who faces corruption charges himself. She may be a committed economic reformer who hopes to sweep out corruption, but Gloria Arroyo is perched atop a power structure that has been riddled with graft and now appears to be wracked by political infighting...