Quote Originally Posted by Ramil View Post
a) Everyone knows that every official, every man in the government and the Duma are corrupt criminals anyway, so nothing about them would really surprise people; and b) Nobody really trusts journalists or politicians enough to take what they say or write at face value. Everybody lies.
How depressing. I don't know how you can live like that. No wonder so many people emigrate from Russia. And as a follow on; why should anyone fight and/or die protecting a country run by crooks and liars? If this is true, then patriotism in Russia ought to be stone dead!