Future of the FCPA / New EO limits foreign lobbying – but with loopholes / Congress moves to repeal extractives anti-graft law this week.

A Chinese energy giant wins a U.S. bribery case, Beijing beefs up cyber security at “critical” companies, and a commentator in Ukraine offers an algorithm for attacking corruption

Local and federal officials battle over proceeds of graft in Crimea, another businessman accuses cabals in Moscow of stealing his oil firm, and EU officials praise Ukraine’s anti-corruption reforms

Putin is using secret funds to finance the Russian military, China’s anti-graft agency claims that the anti-corruption drive is hurting the Party cadres, and Gazprom is preparing to build a pipeline through Turkey to eliminate Ukraine from European gas deliveries

Russian space agency committed $1.8 billion worth of financial violations, China issues a white paper on military strategy, and 100 billion pounds worth of real estate in England and Wales is owned by shell companies

DC firm earns $300,000 lobbying for a Russian oil company, Beijing seeks a treaty with the US to help extradite corrupt fugitives, and the Kremlin hires vigilantes to patrol the streets of Moscow

Heads of major Russian companies reveal personal salaries, anti-graft head Wang Qishan rejects notion of independent judiciary, and Kerry plans to take tougher stance on China’s reclamation in South China Sea

A Chinese official plans to visit the U.S. to track down corrupt fugitives, Russia puts it’s military on high alert, and reporters visit a Ukrainian town where unwitting people are used as pawns in money laundering operations

China warns random checks will be conducted to deter officials from falsifying asset disclosures, Ukraine replaces top prosecutor, and Russia’s oil companies call for changes to the industry’s tax regime

An increasing number of foreign individuals (some the subject of government inquiries) are using shell companies to buy New York real estate, and China’s anti-corruption agency investigates graft and nepotism at Sinopec