Is the national culture a modernization brake? Sergey Medvedev: I want to start with a joke about how Mercedes buys AvtoVAZ plant. Governing Germans arrive, make a car, and Zhiguli leave the assembly line. Then German spare parts, German machines, German equipment are imported, collected - the Zhiguli rolled out again. Finally, German workers were already brought, they made German salaries, collected - Lada rolled out.