A scene of people storming a train belongs in a classic movie about the “Wild West” — or, at least, about Russia’s revolutionary years.

Except this is 2016, in a country where every State Duma deputy earns 450,000 rubles a month, while the head of Russian Railways leaves the company as a dollar billionaire.

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The author of the video exclaims several times: What kind of lawlessness is this? What are you doing to people?!

Here are a few links that answer that question:

The house of former Russian Railways head and one of President Putin’s closest allies, Vladimir Yakunin, looks like this:

You can read the Anti-Corruption Foundation’s (ACF) investigation into how members of the Yakunin family live here (spoiler: they do not have to storm trains to get to work).

An ACF explainer on why suburban trains are being canceled in Russia (spoiler: negligence and theft) can be read here.

And the fourth item will not be a link, but a photograph:

There you have it — all the answers.

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