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Slovakia's score rose each year between 2020, when it scored 49, and 2023. [5] For comparison with regional scores, the highest score among Western European and European Union countries [Note 1] was 90, the average score was 65 and the lowest score was 42. [6] Transparency International wrote of Slovakia in 2023: [7]
By February 2023, the list included 6,968 people in the following categories and sub-categories: [21] War Arrangers ( Security Council members, Military staff and accomplices of Russian occupation) Propagandists (federal media personnel, Chief editors and management of regional TV channels, Regional press people)
On 17 March 2023, following an investigation of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, and Maria Lvova-Belova, Russian commissioner for children's rights, alleging responsibility for the war crime of unlawful deportation and transfer of children during the Russo-Ukrainian War. [1]
Corruption crimes have soared 30% this year compared with 2023, Krasnov said. Of the 30,000 disciplined for corruption, he added, 500 had been fired for a “loss of trust.”
The 2024 Corruption Perceptions Index scored the public sectors of 180 countries on a scale from 0 ("highly corrupt") to 100 ("very clean") and then ranked those countries by score. The country ranked first is perceived to have the most honest public sector. [19] Russia ranked 154th with a score of 22, its lowest score ever.
Treason cases began growing after 2014, when Russia illegally annexed Crimea from Ukraine, threw its weight behind a separatist insurgency in the eastern part of the country and fell out with the ...
Thousands of people rallied across Slovakia on Thursday as protests intensified against a plan by the new government of populist Prime Minister Robert Fico to amend the country’s penal code. The ...
Slovakia joined other countries in spring 2022 in declaring a number of Russian diplomats persona non grata. On 16 February 2023, Slovakia's parliament defined the Putin regime as "terrorist" and formally designated Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism. [6] On 2 October 2023, Slovakia recognized rapprochement with Russia.