[XorNot]

This is how Russia works. This is why the Russian government does what it does and why the people let it happen.

Because obviously nothing can ever change, so don't even try. How silly of of you citizen, to imagine even trying to fix corruption.

[dkjaudyeqooe]

That's not what I'm talking about. It's the notion that if you get the corrupt to justify their actions that you'll somehow avoid corruption.

Fixing corruption involves people refusing to put up with corruption.

[XorNot]

If you keep no records, require no process, then how do you even identify if corruption is taking place?

The entire reason with we have say, double-entry book-keeping, is because it makes it substantially more difficult to engage in corrupt activities without producing a record which can be used to hold people to account for their actions.

People declare "I think it's corruption" on the internet all the time with absolutely no evidence, which itself is indistinguishable to corruption in the first place (since the favorite tool of dictators and autocrats is to "discover" corruption in their political opponents when it is convenient to do so).