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Reibach, Rebbach
Profit. After international news showed architect’s drawings of the thoughtless shopping center scheduled to replace one of Istanbul’s last green parks, people outside Turkey started wondering how much...
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Innenminister Vitaliy Zakharchenko
Minister of Internal Affairs Vitaliy Yuriyovych Zakharchenko, responsible for security forces in the Ukrainian government headed by President Viktor Janukovytsch (Independent Party) and Prime Minister...
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Mezhyhirya
The name of Ukrainian President Viktor Janukovytsch’s “residential compound” along the Dnieper river, which apparently features 345 acres of park land, a golf course, fancy buildings, helipads, pet...
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Fliegen und Tiger sind vom Pferde gefallen
“Flies and tigers fell off the horse.” Both low-ranking and now at least nine high-ranking officials from the government and top executives from the economy have been investigated for corruption in...
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Kernkraft-Weissblendung
“Nuclear Power Whiteout,” a non-native speaker’s inadequate translation of the title of the bestselling Japanese thriller Genpatsu Whiteout. It’s a story about a fictional terrorist attack on a nuclear...
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Vorteil nehmen von rechtsstaatlicher Abwesenheit daheim und rechtsstaatlicher...
Benefitting from the absence of rule-of-law in Russia and from the presence of rule-of-law in London. An argument that Russia’s economic elites’ use of the relative safety of western countries’...
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„Es gibt ein paar tausend Banken in Europa, da kann man nicht alle kennen“
“There’s thousands of banks in Europe and you can’t know all of them” is how BayernLB supervisory board member and former Bavarian state Economy Minister Erwin Huber (C.S.U.) supposedly explained in...
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Schweigegeld oder Schmiergeld?
“Silence money or shmear money”; blackmail or bribery? How do you show that a quiet illicit payment was corruption and not extortion? The Bavarian Landesbank BayernLB came into some unexpected Formula...
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Klassenjustiz
Class-based justice. On 01 Aug 2014 the Süddeutsche Zeitung’s Klaus Ott reported that it looked like Bernie Ecclestone had successfully negotiated a deal with a Munich court to pay $100 million to make...
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Vertrauenswürdiges Verhalten
Trustworthy behavior. The state parliament of Schleswig-Holstein commissioned a study of the legal protections accorded to whistleblowers who are German government employees. It found they have no...
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