There is something to be understood about modern Russian culture - being successful cheater and uncaught thief considered a virtue, praised in a folklore with

There is something to be understood about modern Russian culture - being successful cheater and uncaught thief considered a virtue, praised in a folklore with an iconic characters as Ostap Bender or, on a lower level, untouchable criminals, so-called Thiefs-Above-Law. The unprecedented level of corruption in Russia is in a large extent due to this cultural beliefs. Being a successful bureaucrat or corrupted official is a dream of millions, be it a student of Academy of Government Service, or just a novice applied for a job of a traffic cop. Most of so-called businesses are based on a fraud, designed and set up with the fraud in mind, as an exit strategy, based on exploitation of minorities, cheating of naive and uneducated and banal brute force. Of course, such thing happen all over the US or other countries, the difference is the percentage. In Russia cheating and fraud are dominant strategies due to lack of any real economy or production. The dream of easy money makes us the world largest porn producer, malware manufacturer (nothing very clever, just primitive deception) and a world's leader in drugs usage. We are deliberately copying, adapting and sometimes creatively enhancing all the possible ponzi schemes, corporate frauds found in US, without trying to mimic anything decent. So, nothing to see here, yet another punk inspired by the cult books about Ostap Bender. btw, these cards of Tinkoff Credit Systems was a nice cheating in itself - in a small print there was whopping 35% interest rate, huge fees for cancellation and inability to pay back ahead of schedule.)) So, they worth each other.