Sunday 24 January 2010

discipline


I was quite surprised to see in a parking lot special lots for handicaped persons.

I wasn't surprised to see that people gave a s**t and anyway parked.

Still the lady parking her new car accross two lots for disabled persons
As a Russian parlamentarian put it not long ago in an interview. 'Our society is not disciplined enough, as that we introduced laws as sophisticated as in Europe/USA'.

I am pretty sure that is true :)

About this blog

This blog is a close up on Russia and the CIS. I am not giving you the big picture.
I would anyway fail. I am too long here. So beauty & decay,
education & corruption, high culture & kafka-style administration are meanwhile normal for me.
So this blog is like a painting from from Roy Lichtenstein... when you are with your nose on it :) You will just see the dots, not gaining any understanding of the whole.

Most things will look strange in this blog. But you can be sure, I would not live here, if there would not be a lot of great things here. Unfortunately, the weired stories are more interesting to tell & read.
Don’t judge Russia on this blog, if you want to know the country, come over and take a look by your own.

Gilles