Activists from several civic groups held a roundtable at Moscow's Independent Press Center to discuss the extent of Russian corruption and what could be done about it.
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It also makes many wonder whether India's political parties can ever be serious about fighting corruption when they condone it so openly.
Aside from the denial of service attack that targeted the site earlier this month, it has also been the subject of a complaint by a group of Bulgarian banks filed against the site with Bulgarian regulators in October of last year, claiming that it had sought to undermine their reputation by publishing a U.S. State Department cable about alleged banking corruption.
The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad declined to answer specific questions about its report on corruption, but stressed that it was a draft and said there were doubts about the veracity of some of the sources used.