You may argue that it's biased and cherry-picked - presumably as opposed to all these counter-arguments like "I've seen worse around Brooklyn" or "I happen to h

You may argue that it's biased and cherry-picked - presumably as opposed to all these counter-arguments like "I've seen worse around Brooklyn" or "I happen to have a lower crime rate than NY in my 100 thousand Russian town" :))) That's solid stuff fortunately, no cherry-picking going on. However oops, overall statistics also tend to show that Russia isn't doing all that great Eg. Human Development Index, which measures the standard of living based on a wide variety of data, doesn't even place Russia in the world's top 50. It only does slightly better than Cuba or Mexico. Or is this evil, imperialist dollar-paid propaganda too (this one never gets old) :)