putin´s empire has dropped below Africa in the global corruption rankings.

[Litwin]

Mr. S. Brin was 100% right ! There is a reason why in Finnish verb "Ryssiä" (Muscovy ) , roughly meaning "to totally fail something".

 

[IM2]

Africa is a continent. Nigeria is one country on that continent.

 

[ThirdTerm]

Ukraine is ranked 116th (32), while Russia is 137th (29). Overall, the former communist bloc is ranked as low as Latin America and some parts of Africa by Transparency International.

According to the newspaper Le Monde: "In its main surveys, Transparency International does not measure the weight of corruption in economic terms for each country. It develops a Corruption Perception Index (CPI) based on surveys conducted by private structures or other NGOs: the Economist Intelligence Unit, backed by the British liberal weekly newspaper The Economist, the American neoconservative organization Freedom House, the World Economic Forum, or large corporations. (...) The IPC ignores corruption cases that concern the business world. So, the collapse of Lehman Brothers (2008) or the manipulation of the money market reference rate (Libor) by major British banks revealed in 2011 did not affect the ratings of the United States or United Kingdom." The organization also receives funding from companies that are themselves convicted of corruption offences.[43]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index

 

[Litwin]

Africa is a continent. Nigeria is one country on that continent.

yes, when Brin said it, he made a compliment to Moscow empire, Nigeria has real elections , free press etc. Moscow ulus has non of these democratic institutes....


any comment on this ?

 

[Litwin]

Ukraine is ranked 116th (32), while Russia is 137th (29). Overall, the former communist bloc is ranked as low as Latin America and some parts of Africa by Transparency International.

According to the newspaper Le Monde: "In its main surveys, Transparency International does not measure the weight of corruption in economic terms for each country. It develops a Corruption Perception Index (CPI) based on surveys conducted by private structures or other NGOs: the Economist Intelligence Unit, backed by the British liberal weekly newspaper The Economist, the American neoconservative organization Freedom House, the World Economic Forum, or large corporations. (...) The IPC ignores corruption cases that concern the business world. So, the collapse of Lehman Brothers (2008) or the manipulation of the money market reference rate (Libor) by major British banks revealed in 2011 did not affect the ratings of the United States or United Kingdom." The organization also receives funding from companies that are themselves convicted of corruption offences.[43]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index