Sentence examples for compromising material to from inspiring English sources

The English-language Moscow Times suggested last week that Mr. Putin's months atop the F.S.B. gave him access to enough compromising material to keep Russia's corrupt governors in line for years.

Wiretapping to gather compromising material on political opponents is common in Ukraine, Russia and other former Soviet republics.

Putin said it was "total nonsense" that Russian intelligence had followed Trump to gather compromising material on him and reiterated that he had never met Trump.

The Oregon senator said he believes Russia might have compromising material on Trump, and that "something close" to the infamous pee tape is likely out there.

Central to this system is the notion of kompromat, or compromising material.

The Skuratov tale is perhaps the most famous example of Russia's use of kompromat — compromising material — partly because it was a crucial episode in Putin's path to the Presidency but also because it was a rare moment when the material became public.

Then an unverified and explosive dossier was leaked last week alleging that Russian intelligence had gathered compromising material, known in Russia as kompromat, on Trump that could be used to influence his policy decisions as president.

Trump's "sexual perversion," as the memos describe it, was apparently well known to intelligence officials and focused on as a source of compromising material.

"I have kompromat" — compromising material — "against you, you have kompromat against me, I have some prosecutors, you have some judges.

Mr Kuchma's people have vast "administrative resources"—a post-communist euphemism for vote-rigging powers.The other big election weapon is compromising material (kompromat, for short).

The unverified opposition-research dossier put together by a former British intelligence agent, which was published by BuzzFeed in January, said that the Kremlin may have gathered compromising material about the new President.