Opacity Transnational

Kazakhstan, favored by the Euro-polity to be the rotating head of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), ranks 120th in transparency on the perceived corruption index. It shares the slot with Armenia, Bolivia, Ethiopia, Mongolia, and Vietnam. With its’ corruption in military procurement featuring prominently, the OSCE seems to have taken up the method of rewarding venality as a means of encouraging self-improvement.