The former chief of the Beijing airport has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for taking bribes to arrange jobs and set up corrupt business deals.
For many years after Lukashenko was first elected in 1994 (he has ruled without interruption ever since), most Belarusians did, perhaps, tolerate the regime, because they believed it protected them from the worst excesses of neighbouring Russia's "wild east" capitalism: corrupt privatisation, job losses and mafia rule.
Counterterrorism researchers have found that ISIS and al Qaeda are able to attract recruits because of a range of complex factors including poverty, corrupt governance, job scarcity and the negative effects of U.S.-led intervention abroad ― not just religion.
Largely secular, they were a mix of graduates and working class, all with the same grievances: not enough electricity and clean water, no jobs, corrupt politicians who wasted eight months on full pay forming a government.
In Gillo Pontecorvo's multi-national drama Kapo (1960), Strasberg was a prison guard (born Jewish but having taken on the identity of a dead political prisoner) in a Nazi concentration camp, who becomes corrupted by the job.
Meanwhile, up to 1,000 workers from a factory in China's northern Hebei province marched in protest over job cuts, corrupt management and inadequate pay.
That is either a measure of how well the election commissions — the Electoral Complaints Commission and the Independent Election Commission — did their job, how corrupt the election process was, or both.
But it is also true that more than 200,000 Georgians were driven out of Abkhazia, and that Russia backed Abkhazia militarily.Abkhazia had the trappings of a nascent state, but South Ossetia was a chessboard of villages (Georgian and Ossetian) which suffered under a Moscow-sponsored, thuggish and corrupt regime whose main job seemed to be to provoke Georgia.
Then as now, the puppet ruler installed by the West has proved inadequate for the job: simultaneously corrupt and weak, and forced to turn on his puppeteers in order to retain a fragment of legitimacy in the eyes of his people.
But it is also true that more than 200,000 Georgians were driven out of Abkhazia in a burst of ethnic cleansing, and that Russia backed Abkhazia militarily.Abkhazia had the trappings of a nascent state, but South Ossetia was a chessboard of villages (Georgian and Ossetian) which suffered under a Moscow-sponsored, thuggish and corrupt regime whose main job seemed to be to provoke Georgia.
