Power and Influence

Once responsible just for his physical security, President Putin’s bodyguards now have impressive titles — and land worth...

The European Commission announced this week it will cut its financial assistance to Moldova by US$22.7 million per year for...

Macedonia’s former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski fled to Hungary after a Skopje court ordered police to arrest him because...

Despite being under scrutiny from human rights groups, far-right politician Jair Bolsonaro won the presidential election in...

About a dozen former politicians and businessmen were sentenced Monday to nearly 53 years in prison for organized crime, tax...

Emails allegedly obtained by Times Union cast suspicions over the process by which Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo gave...

A Hungarian CEO who attempted to bribe his way to government contracts noticed too late that the “officials” he had given...

How a small firm of wealth advisers built up a $3 billion “golden passports” industry and gained influence in the...

France’s ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy lost on Monday a first appeal against facing trial on influence peddling and...

South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress, A.N.C., has seen a wave of intra-party killings motivated by...

Over a third of Ukrainians are being asked for bribes annually, and their government is losing up to US$880 million each...

Abdulla Yameen, the autocratic leader of the Maldives whose rule saw the corrupt handouts of 50 of the country’s islands,...