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Interpol rejects Russian candidate after outcry
By EUobserver
Interpol member states voted by 101 to 61 in Dubai on Wednesday to appoint a South Korean candidate, Kim Jong Yang, as its new president, instead of Alexander Prokopchuk, a Russian official. The vote came after Lithuania and Ukraine threatened to quit Interpol if the Russian candidate got in, due to the fact he had personally overseen politically-motived abuses of its systems on behalf of the Kremlin.