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Scraping for analysis
A small scraping can give a comprehensive picture of a large disease.
...Three months after receiving an official message from the Prosecutor General’s Office that the flashing light on Nikita Mikhalkov’s car is an imposture and a violation of the presidential decree, our leader of the nobility continues to cut through the streets of the capital under the flashing light. MK's source in the Prosecutor General's Office commented on this with Roman stoicism:
- You understand who Mikhalkov is friends with.
O yes.
If the one with whom he is friends can do what he does and is still free, why wouldn’t Mikhalkov suddenly give a damn about the instructions of the Prosecutor General’s Office?
This nonsense flashing episode is quite sufficient to understand everything about the state of law in Russia. The rest - Khodorkovsky, Magnitsky, Beslan... - can be easily extrapolated.