The main task of bureaucratic life is to please the higher authorities. The world is imperfect and unfair: I would like it to be different, but, as long before Chernomyrdin, Nobel laureate Ivan Bunin, unknown to the “Fursenko children,” noted, “it turns out as always.” And the rank of the official does not play a role here. The main thing is attitude.

Some guy was handing out guards ribbons to drivers in a traffic jam - with an apology that there were only two pieces per hand. I took two. I came home and hung one on the “horns” of the candlestick in the hallway. On another candlestick, a white ribbon “Russia without Putin” has been hanging since February.