Originally posted by Rude
Heyas Boroda!
As an outsider, the situation in your country appears to be very dangerous and could affect all of us.....it seems the Russian people have no hope.
Is this close to the truth in your opinion, or do you believe Putin will do what's best for the Russian people? Personally, I see him as a very dangerous man.
In fact the situation now is better then in 1998-99. It's not all that bad.
I find Putin more intelligent and rational then previous leaders. But I don't like the way things are going now. I don't mind him sending our new-brewn billionaires to jail, i don't care for that "freedom of press" crap (it's used as a slogan by certain financial and political groups who simply don't care about anything but their profit at our expence), but I see some things that can make situation worse. After 12 years of "free enterprising" it will really hurt if government will restrict imports and try to interfere into business. Our laws are so nice that anyone who really works and not sits his arse off can be put to jail or at least fined and ruined completely. "Clear" business means that you have to pay all your profits to Big Brother and still will be in debt.
We'll see how the things will go in a matter of months.
If we'll go back to Soviet times - I have my arse covered, I am an Academy of Science employee. If we'll follow post-1933 Germany path - it can be not as bad as it can seem (I don't mean starting agressive wars - i hope they are smart enough up there), but the changes in society will be dramatic.
So far I see no movement towards limiting government corruption. This is the biggest problem. And as far as I see - there is no solution for our idiotic law-enforcement other then fireing every militia man and prohibiting them to take government-employment positions.
But the situation is much, much better then in early-90s.
