I don’t feel sorry for the tourists who got stuck at the airport in Thailand. Why the hell did they go there in the first place, when the opposition has already been blocking roads there for three months and so on? The airport itself has been under picket for more than a month already. Of course, they’re our citizens, we have to help them, get them out of there, and all that. I don’t envy those who ended up there with children, but the people who went to Thailand with kids right now are completely irresponsible idiots. Today on TV (I don’t remember the program), they showed some woman in Bangkok, red-faced and yelling into the camera: **and who’s going to compensate us for our emotional distress?! This is just ridiculous. What emotional distress? You should know where you’re going. I once went to Cambodia during the rainy season, and the roads got washed out, so we couldn’t get from the southern part of the country to the airport. There was no “official” transport, so first we took a minibus, then hired some guys on motor scooters to get us as far as the flooded section, and after that we hired a boat and sailed between flooded houses (la_roshel can back me up, she was in that group too). And nothing — we took it as an adventure. As a matter of fact, we later spent six hours stuck at the airport in Bangkok too. So the stranded travelers can make claims only against themselves and their insurance companies. And if an EMERCOM plane (Russia’s emergency services) has to be sent for them, then either they themselves or their insurers should pay for that plane too.