Tag Archives | civic activism

The people speak out ahead of Russian election

By on 29 February 2012 in Europe and Central Asia, People power, Politics and government

Ahead of the presidential elections taking place in Russia this Sunday we interviewed  Elena Panfilova, Board Member of Transparency International and Director of our Russian Chapter. Where is the greatest change needed in Russia today? Russia needs competition to return to all spheres of public life; particularly in politics, in the economy and in the [...]

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What makes New Zealand, Denmark, Finland, Sweden and others “cleaner” than most countries?

By on 7 December 2011 in Measurement and Research

Marie Chêne, Senior Research Coordinator at Transparency International, looks at the countries that are ranked highest in the 2011 Corruption Perceptions Index. New Zealand, Denmark, Finland and Sweden have been consistently ranked at the top of the Corruption Perceptions Index and are perceived to be the least corrupt of all the countries surveyed. They are [...]

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In Russia, the fight against corruption goes online

By on 22 November 2011 in Europe and Central Asia, People power

Alexander Elkin and Aleksey Shlyapuzhnikov of the Center for Anti-Corruption Research and Initiative Transparency International Russia (TI Russia) talk about engaging the public in anti-corruption work with the help of new technologies. Several years ago, an intellectual movement called Lebed (which stands for “the swan” in Russian) was created with the aim to bring together [...]

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