On the one hand, former Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze engaged in what amounts to blackmail.
They are also charged with conspiracy to make threats to kill and conspiracy to blackmail.
In 2009, Klatten won a civil case against Helg Sgarbi, an ex-lover who tried to blackmail her for millions.
Of course an extra-marital affair can make a member of the intelligence security subject to blackmail, a serious concern.
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Seven men charged with conspiracy to blackmail after a series of explosions in Staffordshire have been charged with further offences.
The ex-fiance of Tamara Ecclestone has denied trying to blackmail her saying he had "no need to extort anybody for money".
Last winter Gazprom appeared to blackmail Ukraine's new pro-Western government by cutting off the country's gas amid a dispute over prices.
They could attack our allies or attempt to blackmail the United States.
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Thomas Harris, 27, of Ringwood, Hampshire, has also admitted conspiracy to blackmail, but he did not enter SHAC until 2007, the court heard.
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But frustrated United Nations officials say, in private at least, that this can easily lead to blackmail - the demands simply go on rising.
Cynics brushed aside that move as a ploy by the Nationalist leader, Devlet Bahceli, to blackmail the coalition into letting him replace Mr Ecevit.
Indeed, those who work to strengthen Fatah may well be opening themselves to blackmail and public humiliation at a time and place of Hamas's choosing.
He may want to blackmail the government into direct, public negotiations.
Worse still, the welfare reforms proposed by Mr Prodi have thanks to blackmail by Italy's unreconstructed Communists, whose votes the government needs turned into a patchwork of minor changes.
Furthermore, using language drawn directly from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and even Neo-Nazis, Boron blasts Israel for using the Holocaust as a way to blackmail the world.
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The President is right when he says he will not have a debate nor negotiate with those who seek to blackmail the nation into doing things their way.
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The darkest side of him was revealed in the year 2000 when it became public that he videotaped all his meetings and then used these tapes to blackmail people.
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Rural Shuangfeng county in Hunan has declared a "people's war" on forged sex photos that have been used to blackmail local officials and businessmen, the newspaper also reports.
His final week in office has been clouded by scandal, with allegations swirling in the Italian media that gay clergy may have made themselves vulnerable to blackmail by male prostitutes.
Edvinas Sermuksnis, 30, also from Belfast, 43-year-old Kevin Proctor from Stoke-on-Trent and Martin Drewery, 42, from the Staffordshire Moorlands, were previously charged with conspiracy to blackmail and bailed, police said.
Such a system would conceivably give the government increased power over us, power that could be used not just to monitor, but in some cases, potentially, to blackmail, persuade or discriminate.
Southwark Crown Court heard Mr Rose and media studies student Uddin, 20, plotted together to blackmail Ms Ecclestone and drafted an email together which they sent to her manager Dana Malmstrom.
Southwark Crown Court heard Mr Rose and student Mr Uddin plotted together to blackmail Ms Ecclestone, telling her manager Dana Malmstrom the money was offered for details of the former couple's relationship.
Nicole Vosper, 22, from Newquay, Cornwall, and Sarah Whitehead, 53, from Littlehampton, West Sussex, have admitted conspiracy to blackmail companies and suppliers linked to the Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) between 2001 and 2008.
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"This institution could well put America in a position to be held hostage to blackmail, to threats based on our military presence around the world, our diplomatic efforts, our geopolitical economic interests, " said Sen.
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