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Ukraine has a mixed record on attracting foreign private investment. In 2021, it ranked as the second-lowest country in Europe on Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index, behind only Russia. Vavrishchuk said the country would need to enforce the rule of law, ensure transparency and fair competition. "Participation in the post-war reconstruction could be attractive for investors," he said. "But still we will have to address all those issues (transparency and corruption) that we have not had time to before the war began."

Hundreds of thousands (millions) of Brazilians flooded the streets on Sunday in the biggest ever protests calling for President Dilma Rousseff's removal, reflecting rising popular anger that could encourage Congress to impeach the leftist leader. The demonstrations were the latest in a wave of anti-government rallies that lost momentum late last year but have regained strength as a sweeping corruption investigation nears Rousseff's inner circle. Poor Brazilians, who form the base of the ruling Workers' Party support, have not turned out in great numbers in recent protests. But their support for Rousseff has faded as unemployment rises and inflation climbs.

Back when I was active in Massachusetts politics, one of my roles was as a coordinator working for Romney when he ran against Ted Kennedy for the Senate. My best friend at the time was an Irish-American, retired airline pilot who loved boating as much as I did, and who did boating stuff with me almost every day (as a college professor, I had summers off). One time I laid out the case for Romney over Kennedy to him, and he sadly agreed, but then said that he had to vote for Kennedy because “we owed it to him”. In...

Bolshevik Begats by: Malcolm A. Kline, May 07, 2008 If you wonder why your professors cannot let go of their pet theories no matter how badly they work out when practiced in the real world, you will find part of the answer in A Conservative history of the American Left by my predecessor, Daniel J. Flynn. “From persuasion to politics, politics to revolution, and revolution to a long march through the institutions, the Left’s methods for transforming society have evolved,” Flynn writes. “The ends, though, have remained more or less the same.” “A brotherhood of man, human perfection, complete equality,...

Author Daniel J. Flynn believes that last month’s Supreme Court case of Rumsfeld vs. the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR) was about the hypocrisy of higher education. “Faculty and administrators rarely have trouble accepting military money through government contracts, but have problems with students accepting military money [through service],” Flynn said at an Accuracy in Academia event called “The Ivory Tower’s War on the U.S. Military.” So the decision of the Supreme Court made the hypocrisy obvious and illegal by telling colleges and universities that they cannot continue to get federal funding while banning military recruitment on their...

DEEP BLUE CAMPUSES John Kerry v. George W. BushGiving To 2004 Presidential Campaigns From Employees at U.S. News & World Report’s  Top-Ranked National Universities  USN&WR’s 2004School Rankings Kerry/Bush Dollar Ratio Kerry/Bush Dollar %  Number of Donations         Harvard 25 to 1 97% to 3%    406 to 13 Princeton 302 to 1 99.7% to 0.3    114 to 1 Yale 20 to 1 95% to 5%    150 to 3 Penn 32 to 1 97% to 3%    93 to 5 Duke 9 to 1 90% to 10%    98 to 7         MIT 43...

In his new book, Intellectual Morons, Daniel Flynn exposes the dangers of blindly following intellectual elites who support and promote idiotic ideas and theories. Chris Banescu, who recently wrote the review of the book, interviewed Flynn about the origins of the material and the impact its revelations will have on our culture. Chris Banescu: What inspired you to write this book? Daniel Flynn: My goal in writing Intellectual Morons is to get more people to think with their brain rather than their ideology. By exposing ideologically-inspired hoaxes and frauds, the book not only rebuts falsehood but helps immunize readers against...

CNSNews.com) - Would the United States be better off under a one-world government controlled by the United Nations, or is now the time for America to withdraw from the U.N. and reassert its sovereign authority? That is the question explored in a new video premiering this week by the Leadership Institute's Campus Leadership Program (CLP). Independence or World Government, the latest CLP project, was shipped to 253 campus leadership groups in 42 states to help provide conservative students with a balanced view of the U.N. and its global initiatives. The video notes the anti-Americanism and distrust of the Bush administration...