The prime minister also condemned the actions of taxi drivers, who sharply "jacked up" prices after the terrorist attacks, and urged people not to profit from tragedy. For example, taxi drivers were demanding up to 3,000 rubles for a ride from Komsomolskaya at the Square of Three Stations (a major Moscow transport hub) to Park Kultury. "I want to address representatives of small and medium-sized businesses working in transportation—I urge no one to take advantage of this situation or inflate prices, not to create additional difficulties, but, on the contrary, to show solidarity with those people who have found themselves in a difficult situation and who need your support," Putin told the drivers. /////// The taxi drivers' actions are, of course, outrageous. Today they are far more outrageous than their outrageous actions on an ordinary day. And it is only right that, at a difficult moment for the country, the National Leader finds the strength within himself to condemn precisely what deserves condemnation. There are still certain isolated shortcomings in the provinces...