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Russia: “The Sirens of Russia”

Written byVeronica Khokhlova
Posted 23 April 2010 0:32 GMT

A Good Treaty posts a YouTube video of a Moscow driver's encounter with a high-ranking official's BMW and explains why “the special road status of the elite is a sore point with the Russian public.” (A few more related links in Russian are here.)

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