I mostly agree with your point, I just want to remark that Russians are very keen at circumventing what they consider to be stupid (alas, this includes laws and

I mostly agree with your point, I just want to remark that Russians are very keen at circumventing what they consider to be stupid (alas, this includes laws and rules). I suspect that an average Chinese respects the authority, whereas in Russia it's a kind of a national sport to cheat the system. We can hope that such system of safety "valves" will be unstable in Russia.