Well, what did you expect? If the state-endorsed role model for a “security-service law enforcement officer” is not a modest person with a keen sense of justice, but a bearded tough guy in a Porsche Cayenne, firing into the air and flagrantly violating traffic laws, then it is only logical that this type comes out on top.
The day before yesterday in Chechnya, yesterday in Dagestan, today in Moscow. That is what success looks like.
He hung portraits of his bosses on the wall, along with pennants of the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department (MUR) and the FSB:
And then he drove into oncoming traffic with a brazen pack of boys in flashy cars that no one would dare stop.
If in Grozny and Makhachkala people praise this sort of thing and say “what a guy,” then why should anyone in Moscow criticize it? If you have a BMW and a police ID, it would be silly not to drive in reverse down Vernadsky Avenue.
True, “sometimes you have to put on the uniform,” but that is a minor cost of the good life.
Yes, yes—just a senior lieutenant.
This is how 26-year-old criminal investigator Karakhan Balakerimov of the Troitsky and Novomoskovsky Administrative Area police department celebrates his wedding. According to media reports, this what a guy has been serving in the police for only two years, having joined not long ago after graduating from the Interior Ministry academy.
As one of the wedding guests very accurately explains on his Instagram, right now there are certain particular circumstances and shared interests such that you just have to FLOOR IT!!!)))))
In the beautiful Russia of the future, we will reform the police. We will free people in uniform from enormous amounts of unnecessary paperwork and raise their salaries. A police officer will become one of the most respected members of society, and everyone will want one as a neighbor.
Modest, decent people will join the police. They will not want to FLOOR IT; they will want to serve society. They will not drive into oncoming traffic not because they are afraid someone will catch it on camera and post it online, but because such stupidity would never even occur to them. Why would it?
All of this is entirely realistic. This is how things work in Germany, Canada, the United States, Israel, Finland, New Zealand, and a host of other countries. Russia can be like that too, if the current government—which promotes the wrong role models and approves of a police officer who is half policeman, half hooligan—is replaced.
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