Hi, I wish I could be so optimistic as you, but things in Russia use to change very very very slowly, you may change one face, but not a whole system, or a whole mentality, therefore it takes a whole lot and time more, and I don´t see at that moment where this change might come from. you have a tiny minority of the people who really want change - and I think even Medvedev has some sympathy for them - but there is no real will for change, and the "elite" - a big and harmful coalition of "businessmen", Edinaya Rossiya-people, bureaucracy, judges, corrupt police authorities and "Siloviki"...well all you can call the "powerful" will never but never give up its privileges...and so long no change, Sorry, but that´s how I see things
2010/9/28 Human Resources <[email protected]> > > About time, good for the Medvyed. > > Maybe now, we will have one police dept. in Moscow, not multiple > half-criminalized "groupings". Recently conducted a social experiment, a > man was lying face down and not moving on the steps of an underpass in front > of New Arbat Metro station. > > Called him an ambulance. Then, asked a cop nearby to do something. Cop, > sorry I am Metro police, he is not in the Metro. "But, he is unconscious > and could be in danger..." Dead stare. Well, you can understand him, he > had to milk all of the kiosks and the occasional Central Asian passing > through, where was he supposed to find the time. > > Same with the DPS officer. Well... can't blame him. Guy's got to make a > living, and the unconscious guy wouldn't have helped in that. > > An actual policeman, you ask? Well they don't really hang about. > Ambulance did not arrive in 10 minutes. This, about 300 meters away from > the Kremlin. > > What if it was you or me or someone we know/love or maybe don't even like > all that much who passed out on a Moscow street or had an accident on a > Moscow road, how many policemen in Luzhkov's Moscow would simply walk/drive > past? > > Enough bad, stale Luzhkov. > > Enough was too much. > _______________________________________________ > Expat mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.lists.ru/mailman/listinfo/expat > http://www.expat.ru/forum/ >
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