I was right. The red-haired villain is not entitled to a flashing beacon. So yesterday I sent the complaints (the first link) to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Prosecutor's Office through their websites. Anyone who wants to can join in. It takes 3 minutes if you remember your ZIP code. If you don't, then four. I think I'll spend a bit of my personal time trying to get ABCH's flashing beacon confiscated. Some may say this is just a minor detail, but I think it's a symbol. A symbol of the complete arrogance of the nomenklatura mugs (the entitled Soviet-style bureaucratic elite). You've already been given everything. You've already been forgiven everything. But no. You still have to put a flashing light on the car so you can zip down the oncoming lane past these poor suckers. How are we supposed to demand that traffic cops stop extorting 500 rubles if those same cops show up at a crash scene and see Chubais tearing around with an unauthorized flashing beacon in plain sight of everyone, going both to the Kremlin and to the Government House? That, in the end, is the main rule of life in Russia: the law is for suckers—learn how to break it.