Corruption Perceptions Index 2020 - Executive Summary

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Schoeberlein, 2020 50 “Eastern Europe and Central Asia: Governments must stop abusing emergency powers during COVID-19 pandemic”, Amnesty International UK , 29 April 2020, www.amnesty.org.uk/press- releases/eastern-europe-and-central- asia-governments-must-stop-abusing- emergency-powers 51 “Finding collaborative solutions in a crisis: How Covid-19 brought procurement actors in Eastern Europe and Central Asia together“, Open Contracting Partnership , 16 June 2020, www.open-contracting.org/2020/06/16/ finding-collaborative-solutions- in-a-crisis-how-covid-19-brought- procurement-actors-in-eastern-europe- and-central-asia-together/ 52 Tracking the trillions: 6-month checkup on IMF‘s COVID-19 emergency aid“, Transparency International , 28 September 2020, www.transparency. org/en/blog/tracking-the-trillions-6- month-checkup-on-imfs-covid-19- emergency-aid 53 Transparency International, COVID-19: Documented Corruption and Malfeasance Cases (Berlin: Transparency International, 2020), images.transparencycdn.org/images/ COVID-19-Documented-corruption-and- malfeasance-cases.pdf 54 “Tackling the crisis of democracy, promoting rule of law and fighting corruption”, Transparency International , 29 January 2019, www.transparency.org/ en/news/tackling-crisis-of-democracy- promoting-rule-of-law-and-fighting- corruption 55 “Digging deeper into corruption, violence against journalists and active civil society“, Transparency International , 21 February 2018, www.transparency. org/en/news/digging-deeper-into- corruption-violence-against-journalists 56 ”TI BIH filed criminal charges against the Public Health Institute of the Republic of Srpska”, Transparency International Bosnia and Herzegovina , 30 May 2020, https://ti-bih.org/tibih-podnio- krivicnu-prijavu-zbog-nabavki-instituta- za-javno-zdravstvo-rs/?lang=en 57 ”Gojković: Sednica Skupštine nije moguća zbog zabrane skupova više od 50 ljudi”, N1 , 23 March 2020, https:// rs.n1info.com/vesti/a581068-gojkovic- sednica-skupstine-nije-moguca-zbog- zabrane-skupova-vise-od-50-ljudi / 58  ”Serbia, North Macedonia Impose Harsh Weekend Curfews”, Balkan Insight , April 10 2020, https://balkaninsight. com/2020/04/10/serbia-north- macedonia-impose-harsh-weekend- curfews/ 59 “Serbia: Journalist Ana Lalic arrested for reporting on inadequate hospital facilities for coronavirus“, Article 19 , 2 April 2020, www.article19.org/resources/ serbia-journalist-ana-lalic-arrested- for-reporting-on-inadequate-hospital- facilities-for-coronavirus/ 60 “Government says only Crisis Staff can issue information about coronavirus”, N1 , 1 April 2020, https:// rs.n1info.com/english/news/a584240- serbian-government-says-only-its-crisis- staff-can-issue-information-about- coronavirus-pandemic/ 61 “For Criticising Serbia’s COVID-19 Response, Doctors Come under Fire“, Balkan Insight ,14 October 2020, https:// balkaninsight.com/2020/10/14/for- criticising-serbias-covid-19-response- doctors-come-under-fire/ 62 W. Benedek, OSCE Rapporteur’s Report under the Moscow Mechanism on Alleged Human Rights Violations related to the Presidential Elections of 9 August 2020 in Belarus (Warsaw: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, 2020), https://www.osce. org/files/f/documents/2/b/469539.pdf 63 ”Grand corruption”, Transparency International , www.transparency.org/en/ corruptionary/grand-corruption 64 M. Bak, Overview of corruption and anticorruption in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine (Berlin: Transparency International, 2020), https://knowledgehub. transparency.org/helpdesk/overview- of-corruption-and-anti-corruption-in- armenia-azerbaijan-belarus-georgia- moldova-and-ukraine 65 ”GRECO publicly declares Belarus non-compliant with the CoE CORRUPTION PERCEPTIONS INDEX 2020 27