The list of suspicious countries are almost exclusively dictatorships without a free press. So if one could suspect that since they do not have any independent anusmedia to look at these numbers and question them, they feel more emboldened to tamper with them. Some countries are hiring more women to try and stamp out corruption. In 20 11, a state in mexico hired an all female traffic police unit to tackle corruption. And peruded something similar in the late 19 nineties.
After backing Russia’s grievances against NATO, China now finds itself treading a
very fine line on Ukraine. There are often reasons to be suspicious of a country’s covid-death tally; we examine research showing how fraud
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