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[[Category: Blackmail]] ...onstrating that the risk of senior officials being swayed by the threat of blackmail is significant and should be taken into consideration when discussing the i

...dit opponents. However, unlike black PR, ''kompromat'' can also be used to blackmail competitors and does not necessarily need to be published in the public dom ...n Communist Party members that could be traded or used to either punish or blackmail rivals. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, many government officia

...tary, BBC 2, 21 May 1995</ref>). But another former whip stated that, ‘the blackmail tactic is rarely used. Possible targets might be near retirement, or have n

...porters’ groups are linked to other criminal activities as well, including blackmail, violence, robberies and abductions (Spaaij 2005)<ref>Spaaij, R. 2006. 'As

...g about her constituents: ʻ“You go to them and the approach is a sort of a blackmail. If you can’t meet their demands, they tell you the thumb is there. They

...such as ‘sophisticated intelligence-gathering ... and the informal use of blackmail files (''[[kompromat]]''), including copies of bank statements, currency tr

...oviet transition, a'' blackmail state'' (Darden 2001<ref>Darden, K. 2001. ‘Blackmail as a Tool of State Domination: Ukraine under Kuchma', ''East European Const

country, common characteristics of ''reiderstvo'' include fraud, blackmail, manipulation or

physical violence or emotional blackmail is involved, where the donor is forced to give, or