Checking them out

Minister of Internal Affairs Rashid Nurgaliev visited the government-sponsored youth forum “Seliger-2010” (I wonder how many more initiatives will be born there?) and invited its participants to jointly patrol highways to prevent violations of traffic and parking rules.

Members of the pro-Kremlin youth movement “Nashi” recently launched a street action as part of the fight against illegal parking: they put stickers on the windows of illegally parked cars, on which the stickers read “I don’t care about anyone. I park where I want.”

Nurgaliev supported this initiative and said that it is necessary to fight not only corruption in the traffic police, but also “immorality, rudeness, arrogance on the part of road users.” And joint raids, according to the minister, can help improve discipline on the roads and get rid of unethical behavior of drivers. That is, the drivers are rude to traffic cops, but when they see valiant young people without fear or reproach, they will immediately change lanes.

True, Nurgaliev complained that the car with the sticker that he came across on the road also had a curse word written by someone with his finger on the dusty hood. However, Vasily Yakemenko, the former leader of Nashi, and now the head of the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs, which is the organizer of the forum, assured the minister that his charges had nothing to do with this disgrace.

All this, of course, is wonderful. It’s just that the participants of the “Blue Buckets” actions who are not related to the Kremlin youth, who are fighting against cars with flashing lights, are not patted on the head by the police at all, but are detained and transferred to the police station, although they, for example, unlike the “nashists”, get into a fight They don’t interact with car owners, and they don’t put anything on other people’s cars (except maybe their own).