"Some people think that this site is for publishing compromising materials," he said.

Central to this system is the notion of kompromat, or compromising material.

Search everything for compromising material and then destroy it!

In this age, this was a very compromising material.

The Soviets were able to get to Rhodes because it had "compromising materials" about him.

However, Camenae is fond of me, so she works very hard to keep compromising materials out of my reach.

Dymovsky told reporters that senior officers kept compromising material on subordinates so they could fire them at any time.

But he said that Mr Dmitrichenko, 29, kept trying to find compromising material on him.

On three other occasions, it kept inspectors waiting outside the facilities long enough for potentially compromising material to be spirited away by Iraqi agents.

Just before the German capitulation, Pohl gave the order to make disappear all "compromising material".

Press organs have thus been able to release selectively to the public compromising materials ("kompromat") on one or another opposing player.

And the second is that everyone has compromising material on everyone else, and usually it is true."

By releasing compromising materials about some well-known politicians, Russian political image-makers appealed directly to those form the public opinion – journalists, party activists.

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My wife's friends are offered any kind of bribes for any kind of compromising material on Chubais.

Mr Winkler said: "He told the ladies that he had compromising material of them.

Wiretapping to gather compromising material on political opponents is common in Ukraine, Russia and other former Soviet republics.

I asked, Do you have reason to suspect theres sensitive or compromising material in Cliff Danielss possession?

Police reportedly suspect the deposit boxes contained compromising material that Carminati used to compile dossiers on a number of high officials.

Post-Soviet Russian politics has its own tradition of kompromat, or compromising material designed to erode a rival's reputation.

Alas, such exhoratations have been ignored as Russia's political and economic elite have made a national sport out of publicizing compromising material against one another.

"We dealt with all sorts of dirty intrigues and leaks of compromising materials - as if somebody were out to get us," Filin said.

Komprometiruyushchikh materia lakh compromising materials.

All I will say is that certain issues were dropped on the instruction of the wife, who did not want pieces of compromising material, concerning her, made public.

When former prime minister [Chiril Gaburici] tried to change something, was immediately put on the table a file with compromising materials.