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  • Farther east, the dirtiest tactics in the ex-communist world involve "Kompromat"-embarrassing information from government files, particularly involving corruption or ties with the former communist secret police.

    The Economist: Daily news and views 2011

  • Farther east, the dirtiest tactics in the ex-communist world involve "Kompromat"-embarrassing information from government files, particularly involving corruption or ties with the former communist secret police.

    The Economist: Daily news and views 2011

  • "Kompromat" is a common term in the new Bulgarian political vocabulary, meaning slanderous allegations about the past of politicians.

    EurActiv.com 2009

  • Last year Kompromat, a muckraking magazine, devoted a mostly negative issue to the then head of Yukos oil, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russia's richest man, currently on trial for tax evasion and fraud.

    A FREE PRESS, FOR SALE 2007

  • Hoping to stifle the magazine, a Yukos executive offered the editors $35,000 to buy all 10,000 copies, according to Kompromat editor Kirill Belyaninov.

    A FREE PRESS, FOR SALE 2007

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