Kleptocracy: Russia’s Most Successful Export. The case of Lithuania’s former president shows that Russian meddling in foreign elections is nothing new - anddocuments in KI’s Archive prove it, writes Marius Laurinavičius.
News
- Congress will move today to repeal a bipartisan law requiring U.S. oil, gas, and mining firms to report large payments to corrupt governments like Russia and China. (CNN)
- The EU could include the U.S. in a secrecy jurisdiction blacklist later this year. (Handelsblatt)
- FSB agents arrested for treason and illegal hacking are accused of passing information to the CIA. (Moscow Times)
- Alexsey Navalny is being prosecuted again - a conviction would prevent him from running for president in 2018. (RFE/RL)
Features
- The bipartisan architects of the Cardin-Lugar law on extractives transparency say Congress is failing to put the American people first. (Fmr. Sen. Richard Lugar and Sen. Ben Cardin, The Hill)
- In fact, repealing the Cardin-Lugar amendment is voting for corruption. (Isabel Munilla, The Hill)
