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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.
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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.
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"Kompromat" is a common term in the new Bulgarian political vocabulary, meaning slanderous allegations about the past of politicians.
EurActiv.com 2009
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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.
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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.
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