Former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice earned over half a million dollars from real estate purchased under a preferential university program. In 2008, Rice taught political science and public speaking at Stanford University. Using a special program for university staff, Rice bought a four-room house at a discount from ...

Most of the Russian-speaking politicians lived in the former Soviet republics and other countries with close ties to the USSR. Knowledge of Russian has become a prerequisite for moving up the career ladder. Although not all leaders of countries such as Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Georgia and ...