dimakri88

Sure, take a look at Georgia's National Anti-Corruption Strategy and Action Plan (http://www.u4.no/training/incountry-open/Georgia-materials/a...). The document is only about thirteen pages long, nevertheless, it is very informational. Unfortunatly, I can't really help you with the books. There're just too many written on the subject, but perhaps you want to dig a little bit into anti-corruption policies, that were developed in contries like Sweden and Singapore ( yeah, it was suprising to learn that Swedes had a huge problem with corruption around 19th century). These countries can be considered pioneers in fighting corruption.

Crimes like this one happen in Russian all the time. The fact, that foreign businessmen were envolved in this one, makes a big difference. Pretty much Russia is held in fetters of corruption. There are little things that can be done in here without bribing a small-time bureaucrat. Mr.Medevedev is feeding us with useless talk about war on corruption, but if you study his blog (http://eng.news.kremlin.ru/) or the committe for fighting corruption website (http://www.com-cor.ru/en), you won't find a single referance to some sort of anti-corruption hotline. Many tend to think that problems lie only in bureaucrats, but I consider that main problem is in Russian people who are raised over last few centuries to be ignorat of law and their basic rights. Citizens don't have a slightest clue about what can and should be done when ran in to any problem. Fighting the raging corruption should be Russian's greatest and the only concern over next 5-10 years. Justise is only possible when Mr.Medevedev or sometime Putin are addressed and their Manus Domini applied. Georgia should be a positive example of how thing could be delt with a country where 80% of officials are corrupt. It is really dissapointing for me to read comments like "a terrible influence on this world for the past 200 years. When was the last time anything truly positive came out of that dark, forgotten corner of the world". I can list some positive things, but I will probably be considered very subjective by people living outside of Russia. I hope thing will change, and we won't be thought of as a "threat", but for now, you are all right, we are a great threat and I am ashamed of it.