Most probably it was not for me - but ok, still have friends in Russia (but less than i .ua ;-)
Our (.cz) billionaire Petr Kellner died in USA recently. He did say someting wrong (what it was).
There are a lot of stories over the world. Some of them are true, some not.
As I maybe wrote already: common mistake for post comunist states is the idea that democracy can be linked only with "Western-style" life. Where usualy we are just new "market" and cheap source of labour.
Karel
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