Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been embroiled in a massive corruption scandal that threatens to undo his grip on power and tarnish the anti-corruption image he ran on. The National ...

A new University of Massachusetts Amherst study provides fresh insights into why some autocratic governments, despite rampant corruption, draw fewer large-scale protests than others. The research, ...

When it comes to corruption, it is impossible to keep up with the Trump regime. There is always more and worse. The corruption is constant and recurring and you don’t have to look hard to find it. I ...

Throughout history, and particularly in the past 100 years, writers have warned of how power corrupts those who achieve it or inherit it. From the cruelest tyrants over the centuries to dictators (or ...

While the outcome of Kosovo’s election hangs in the balance, our selection of Premium stories on Balkan Insight looks at how power is abused in Serbia, organised crime in Albania and the life of ...

Not long ago I wrote about the dangers of an oligarchy, which is a government run by and for the wealthy. The dangers are found in various forms of corruption. Corruption is the great temptation of ...

The National People’s Power (NPP) party led by Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has received much publicity for its anti-corruption drive since it came to power just over a year ago. The ...

Zimbabwe’s ruling party ZANU-PF bigwigs such as Vice President Constantino Chiwenga have begun to name and shame corrupt cartels in a move analysts say is aimed at purging President Emmerson Mnangagwa ...