Take traffic for a very simple example. They have beautifully designed crossroads, with all sorts of lines marking lanes, indicating where one is supposed to drive into which direction, where one should not drive, there is lots of room, safety margins around crosswalks, everything really well thought out.

But what happens is this: Turning left in Moscow. Everyday, everywhere.

And if they really pass another crackpot law about their misled youth, it won’t make much of a difference. The police do mostly as they please anyway, and they don’t like punks, goths, gays, foreigners, rich people, poor people. They don’t like the looks of someone, they harass him, take his money, beat him up, depending on the circumstances. Sticking out in any way in Russia is really a bad idea, regardless of this new law.