If officials abolish control over themselves for society, it means that society no longer exists for officials Photo: ITAR-TASS / Anton Novoderezhkin When, in early December, the State Duma, relatively routinely and quickly, in two readings at once, adopted bills that made fundamental changes to the rules of control over the income and property of officials, abolishing the entire public component of such control, someone just shrugged their shoulders (what else can you expect from these times),