And here’s Forbes, showing up on the interwebs. We’ll be reading. And here, by the way, is a must-read from them: Six months later, another boy joined Rakhlin’s section—Volodya Putin, who lived nearby on Baskov Lane. “I don’t know what exactly prompted him to start practicing sambo,” Rakhlin recalls about Putin. “Apparently, he wanted to be strong and brave.” Later, Borya Rotenberg also started coming to training. Like any younger brother, Borya looked with admiration at Arkady’s success and dreamed of being no worse. The brothers, Volodya Putin, and four other boys from the first intake formed the core of the section. It’s an interesting article. I highly recommend it to everyone who sees the video policeman from Novorossiysk as a harbinger of change. The video policeman is a good man, but there will be no change. The police are there now precisely so that pesky citizens do not interfere with the work of the “core of the section.” And for that, the police are granted bonuses—the right to shoot citizens, take small sums of money from them, and occasionally run them over with cars. As for modernization, it merely implies that people will be run over not by big black SUVs, but by small, neat sedans (possibly even with eco-friendly hybrid engines). European style, with none of that Asian crudeness.