While it was never an easy place for American companies to operate, Russia has gotten even worse since Putin launched the ...

The Kremlin regime's repression and journalistic censorship are also reflected in a ranking on global press freedom, with ...

Similarly, the most recent Corruption Perceptions Index from Transparency International ... Among the countries considered least corrupt, the United States fell two spots, from No. 25 last year ...

The 2024 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) shows that corruption is a dangerous problem in every part of the world, but change for the better is happening in many countries. Research also reveals ...

A total of 106 out of 146 countries score less than 5 against a clean score of 10, according to the 2004 Corruption Perceptions Index. Sixty countries score less than 3 out of 10, indicating rampant ...

A tentative thaw in ice-cold US-Russia relations ... perceived levels of public sector corruption. By 2024, Russia had slid further down the Corruption Perceptions Index to 154th place, tied ...

The U.S. slid in a global index measuring the perception of public sector corruption, Transparency International said, flagging doubts about ethics standards adopted by the Supreme Court.