Quote Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie
Quote Originally Posted by gRomoZeka
Yeah, I'm sure they drink a lot at the countryside. Life there lacks of comfort and money. And there are some of drunkards even in the cities.

I understand why the guys here are so displeased, though. The whole article gives an impression to uninformed reader that each and everybody in Russia either fatally ill or dying, or going to kill himself.
I don't like the exaggerating and whining of that kind as well.
Yeah, it does give that impression. But then again, all articles give impressions that are not true, because you can never capture truth. Truth is in the eye of the beholder. But if the article is based on statistical facts, well then it is hard to argue with facts... I am sure Russian articles about USA are just as impressionable
as they are in south africa .....i we have the highest violent crime rate in the world that still doesnt mean everyone is dying or that u will get mugged if u go on a holiday but statistically if u stay there for 10 years you will encounter your fair share of crime if not your own then someone elses. Does not make it a bad country. AIDS is very bad here too but doesnt mean that everyone will get it it just means that we had to change our views and become more realistic to the way our society has changed. We also faced a makeover with the fall of apartheid we suddenly had loads more problems than we ever had before economically we almost collapsed , however things are changing we may only see the results in the next 50 years by that time all the old apartheid thinkers will be dead or dying and we will have other things to think about I never used to even think we were a 3rd world country till I came to stay in the UK things are not perfect here either even when everyone has everything you get other problems like human rights laws , benefit fraud , people are scared of youngsters 12 to 14yr old because the law is on their side ....u cant even harm a burglar in your own home because its against the law. So at the end of the day stats are stats and people are people and we all do what we can. Russia is facing change its got lots of clever hardworking people I am sure everyone will get there in the end. Corruption in governments is everywhere people only get better at hiding it hahaha like the old Apartheid politicians they just took 50yrs to be caught but they were no less corrupt than their current counterparts only a balance needs to be reached. At the end of the day u do what u can the best u can do it,