I call these camps, respectively, Russia s global and national kleptocrats.

Peter Eigen How to expose the corrupt

In the 19th century, it was a corrupt politician.

By contrast, the national kleptocrats position is more consistent.

The crash at the end of the opera was a financial collapse in which corrupt bankers were eliminated.

Because Rome's fortunes are held in the hands of corrupt aristocrats who profess to rule in your name.

So far, Xi s campaign has remained a conventional affair involving selective prosecution.

Civil society should agitate for action and accountability.

But the climate can be mastered, the landscape can be modified, the record of bad governments erased.

Gary Oldman as James Gordon One of the few uncorrupted Gotham City police officers.

It is equally important to ensure that national and international systems are in place to curb corruption and to monitor and expose corrupt officials.

But the obstacles also include layers of corrupt bureaucrats and politicians a vast network of resistance to reform.

Basically, prices soar and crooked politicians then milk the rents from the sector, but it doesn't generate any jobs.

Both Putin and Medvedev (and their television propagandists) currently reflect the views and goals of the global kleptocrats. Neither leader wants to capture Tbilisi.

People there want to see an end to the safe havens that allow corrupt officials to steal public money and stash it abroad.

He behaves with aristocratic self confidence. But even he has had to obey the first rule of the game Don t name the corrupt until the Party decides who they are.

The environmental destruction of the delta is part of a larger saga corrupt companies operating hand in hand with corrupt government officials.

There are more than 1,000 brick plants and coalmines around China, and most are under the protection of corrupt officials.

But even if the global kleptocrats sustain their more moderate position on Georgia, theirs could be a Pyrrhic victory.

Because you're worried about the small number of nasty people that are willing to kill, enslave and steal, you think it's necessary for your survival to have a system where some humans among you, for a short while, get to call themselves the government, and they get to order everyone else around like slaves and, if they want, commit mass murder, using money they stole, using threats of violence.

Or you can argue that they are corrupt empire builders who dissipate a portion of the shareholders money that they control.

To the extent that the hearings focused on a few bad apples, they made the case for systematic reform less compelling.

Many previous revolutions have deposed one set of corrupt rulers only to bring in a new bunch who are equally corrupt, vicious, and repressive.

Ghanaian economist George Ayittey unleashes a torrent of controlled anger toward corrupt leaders in Africa and calls on the Cheetah generation to take back the continent.

Hu Wenhai, a brave man from Shanxi who killed two corrupt officials, said before his execution, Officials are forcing people to rebel.

What, then, would the proposed dialogue between the US and these states achieve other than continue to empower their corrupt yet ambitious regimes?

He refused to settle privately, because he believed that if he let corrupt government officials off the hook, they'll keep scamming the public.

On the other side are the modern minded, those who hated the old oppression by corrupt dictators and despise the new oppression by religious fanatics.

It is time for the Afghan government to name, shame, and sack corrupt officials, arrest major drug traffickers and opium landlords, and seize their assets.

Unfortunately, there s a good chance that Odessa s dirty cops (with the red bands on their arms) have already attached propellers to these Karlssons on the roof, and they ve safely flown away. But they promised to return.

The Heroes' Guild no longer exists after the defeat of Jack of Blades, Albion entered a period of relative safety and stability during which the increasingly corrupt Heroes were no longer needed.

But the national kleptocrats seem to believe that they can live without overseas assets, or without educating their children and maintaining residences in the West.

Since corruption fights back, and most corrupt officials can afford to hire the best lawyers, adequate funding of anti corruption mechanisms is therefore a sine qua non for their success.

The fortune accumulated by Bo s wife (reliance on proxies, especially relatives, is a common tactic of corrupt officials everywhere) highlights the opportunities for the well connected to get ahead.

EULEX s effort has received vocal support from a Kosovar public that is fed up with corruption, and counting on the investigations to yield arrests of dirty officials.

Particularly by targeting government corruption, brave journalists made raiding the public till more of a gamble than a birthright and angered many of the corrupt.

There is absolutely no reason, other than pure, corrupt profit interests, that every single vehicle in the world cannot be electric and utterly clean, with zero need for gasoline.

And the corrupt officials? You can be sure that, this time next year, they will be paying homage to their ancestors, as they tramp over the ground where child slaves were buried alive for daring to proclaim their humanity.

Corrupt rulers can use the billions they receive from oil and mining corporations for personal extravagance, or to buy arms for troops to crush democratic resistance movements.

Workers from different industries are also calling for salary increments, allowances, better working conditions, and holding corrupt officials in the industries they are employed accountable for their wrong doings, says the Egyptian Centre for Revolutionary Socialism (Ar).

A retail banker once told me that in making credit decisions in Russia, his analysts had faced a shortage of data and had assumed that a criminal record would be one easy way to weed out the bad eggs.

So, why is China targeting Tibetans who have no connection with politics and are regarded as model citizens? Part of the answer may lie with corrupt local officials.

In the city of Benghazi, the second largest city in Libya, protesters gathered in front of police headquarters and chanted slogans against the corrupt rulers of the country. The response of the authorities was reportedly heavy handed.

Hu s government has also tightened controls over the media. Reports on peasant and worker demonstrations against corrupt officials and illegal property confiscations have been banned.

The last thing needed in this situation is US EU get out of jail free cards for corrupt Kosovo negotiators in exchange for concessions that will benefit Serbia.