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Lately, news about yet another official being detained on corruption charges comes out almost every week. One such story made me stop and think.

Let me answer you as an American: what is the state budget? It's not numbers on a screen. It's roads, healthcare, education, industry, defense. Everything that sustains the life and security of people in their country.

And when hundreds of millions or a billion rubles are illegally siphoned out of the budget, it's not "the state" that pays. The state never pays, period. Society pays: with unfinished factories, weak infrastructure, lines at hospitals, lost opportunities, and lost faith that the system actually works.

Corruption has been around since the dawn of time, and it comes in different scales. It's one thing when an official gets gifted tickets to a football match. It's a whole other thing when people die because 300 million allocated for social infrastructure ended up in someone else's accounts.

I'm glad there are more and more such cases. The investigation should be as honest and fact-based as possible, and the punishment as strict as the law allows. Because when it comes to the budget, this is literally a matter of life and death for millions of people.

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