Russia has returned to having "'normal,' 'civilized' corruption" after the "heady" 1990s, Vladimir Putin's campaign manager Stanislav Govorukhin said in an interview Friday. Russia has returned to having "'normal,' 'civilized' corruption" after the "heady" 1990s, Vladimir...

A group of Russian businessmen calling itself the International Anti-Corruption Committee is creating a list of 50 corrupt government officials and plans to present proof that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin stole hundreds of millions of dollars. A group of Russian businessmen calling itself...

Corruption in Russia was "normal" and "civilized" during Vladimir Putin's first stint as president and support for him has grown stronger as a result of recent opposition rallies, the prime...

... With 2012 under way, it is worth reflecting on how a decade of strong economic growth in emerging markets led to last year's resounding political transformations. From the dramatic events in the Middle East, to the groundswell of support for the anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare in India, leaders in emerging markets are getting a clear message from the streets that growth is not everything. They ignore this message at their peril. Emerging-market economies delivered solid growth during the 2000s...

Anti-corruption blogger and opposition leader Alexei Navalny could become a member of the board of Aeroflot after he was nominated to the position by billionaire Alexander Lebedev. Anti-corruption blogger and opposition leader...

If Putin gave up power at any age, he and dozens of his friends and colleagues who have become millionaires and billionaires over the past 10 years through their Kremlin-connected businesses could face serious corruption charges. This is why the best, and perhaps only, way for Putin to preserve immunity is to stay in power until death. One of the most popular slogans during the December protests in Moscow and other cities was...

DUSHANBE, Tajikistan — Tajikistan's top corruption fighter said Tuesday that the brother of a senior security official has been detained on suspicion of drug trafficking. Anti-corruption agency chief Fattokh Saidov said Faridun Umarov, the brother of the deputy head of the security agency,...

... percent a year, and the question is whether it will be possible to raise it to 5 percent to 6 percent a year. A broad consensus acknowledged that the main reason for the low growth is the poor business and investment climate, which is a code word for corruption. The age-old Russian question of "Who is guilty?" attracted no attention because everyone knows who, although few named him. Nor were people interested in the other old Russian question: "What is to be done?" Instead, Kirill...

... sat down with The Moscow Times at a downtown restaurant to explain how humility and good relations with key figures have allowed him to build a flourishing business from scratch in eight years and how a company's own mistakes are usually to blame for corruption problems. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Q: Why did you come to Russia — and why have you stayed? A: I was working in construction in Spain when Roca asked if I wanted to join the world of international business...

Prominent blogger and anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny on Thursday accused the Chechen Interior Ministry of illegally spending millions of rubles in federal money on expensive cars and other goods. Prominent blogger and anti-corruption...

... officers to deal with business competitors is just as common as ever despite more than three years of federal initiatives to battle the practice, according to a report released Tuesday — though some industry observers disagree. The National Anti-Corruption Committee, a non-governmental organization affiliated with leading human rights activists, said in a 36-page document that bank-related raiding — when businessmen use banking and law enforcement contacts to illegally seize assets or even...

... importance of "Internet democracy," though Putin himself repeatedly said he does not use the Internet very much, indicating that he doesn't care much about criticism of his policy there. He continues by touching on one of the most crucial issues: corruption. "The fight against corruption should become a national cause, not a subject of political speculations," Putin says. But he insinuated that he would resist calls to clean house, and he didn't specify his strategy for combating corruption...

... Vladimir Putin laid out his economic vision in the third of a weekly series of articles titled "Ideas for Russia" on Monday and called for a smaller state presence in business, a fight against corruption, institutional reform and a drive to wean Russia off its oil dependency. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin laid out his economic vision in the third of a weekly series of articles titled "Ideas for Russia" on Monday and called...

... that breach? A: A new party — a center-left [one]. Q: Could you, with your knowledge and experience, take part in setting up a party like that? A: Now I am a completely free man! Q: Many voted not for a specific party, but against the pervasive corruption. For example, they found out that former Prefect Yury Bulanov had an enormous amount of real estate abroad. And your former deputy Alexander Ryabinin has been accused of demanding bribes. Do you think enough was done in Moscow to avoid these...

Anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny met Wednesday with a representative of the Russian Orthodox Church to discuss the current situation surrounding opposition protests. Anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny met Wednesday with a representative of the...

... with countries that have a similar size of per capita income, while people would like the quality of the government's work to be in line with the quality of services, said Konstantin Sonin, a professor at the New Economic School. "Russia is more corrupt and has a less competitive political system compared with, for example, Venezuela, Mexico or Argentina," he said by telephone. People understand that, for the quality of life in the country to increase, the government should work better...

... eternal. From the standpoint of condemning elite behavior, Russian protesters evoke, at least in part, the actors of the Arab revolutions. In their denunciation of "Soviet electoral practices," they reject the combination of despotism and corruption that characterized Soviet power yesterday and Russian power today — rhetoric familiar from Arab revolutionaries. As young Arabs told the rulers of Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, Yemen and other Arab countries, this new generation of Russians...

... they beat us all,” said Ulan Sheraliyev, who is awaiting trial on charges of robbery. “And so we are starving and demanding that this not happen again and that the perpetrator be punished.” For years, underfunded police and galloping corruption have enabled local mafia groups engaged in narcotics trafficking and other crimes to flourish and authorities say the writ of crime gangs extends deep into the nation’s jails. But State Correctional Service chairman Sheishenbek Baizakov...

... one of the most popular forms of real estate fraud. On paper, there are more than enough resources to protect homebuyers, but the number of cheated investors continues to grow every year. There are three major reasons why it is so hard to fight the corruption in this segment. First, fraudulent developers share a portion of what they stole from homebuyers with the authorities who are supposed to protect these homebuyers. Second, there is a lack of transparency and accountability among local governments...

... cosmetic procedures. That is a big change from just a few years ago. My Russian friends — many of them computer programmers, but also some shoppers and business executives — routinely dismissed politics as the province of the naive or the corrupt. Many of the older ones chose careers in science — and then software — because it was the only kind of desk job you could get where politics mostly did not matter (and where Jews were allowed). These people avoided politics on principle...