[thorntonbf]

Corrupt governments' greatest nightmare is transparency.

It's amazing that these documents were discarded so carelessly. That alone probably says a lot about the competency of the Yanukovych government at large.

Good luck and Godspeed! Here's hoping that some of the information found here can be used as evidence and will speed the transition to a better government. Stay safe out there.

[rdtsc]

> It's amazing that these documents were discarded so carelessly.

If there are criminals (and there are) at least let's hope they are incompetent and stupid they can be found and caught easily. Or that those chasing them a fast enough for the criminals to make mistakes on their way out.

The former East German government in its final days tried to shred documents, and it did. It left mountains of single strip shredded documents. Well, it turns out it is possible to painstakingly reconstruct those. There is software that can help as well.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/puzzling-togethe...

They should have burt them, then mixed the ash with water and dumped it in a landfill, but, well glad there were not competent enough or these enacting the change were coming fast enough on their heels.

[rjzzleep]

name one government that is not corrupt

edit: funny i'd like to know what the down vote is about. it's not a snarky response i'm being full serious here right now. i don't know a single one. that's not how governments operate

[avn2109]

In general I'm with you on this one, but maybe the Nordic states? Or maybe extremely small states a la Lichtenstein, where the complexity and amounts of money involved in governance are so low that corruption hardly pays off at all.