For four years—since 2012—people had to do without the commuter train. They asked, they wrote letters. But as soon as they blocked the road in front of the train, the railway authorities proposed restoring the service.
They’ve created all sorts of bodies—*United Russia* (the ruling political party), the ONF (All-Russia People’s Front), civic chambers, state reception offices—but the only thing that works (not always, but sometimes) is this: block something, film it, and send it to Moscow so it shows up somewhere in the federal media.
Only then is an event considered serious and worthy of a response, because it threatens the supreme value—the Rating. The people themselves mean nothing to the Tsar (a sarcastic reference to Russia’s top ruler); they matter to him only in this indirect form—as a fluctuation in the Rating.
So go ahead and undermine the Rating, citizens.