--- "B." <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> So, come on, surely you can concede that a murder
> rate
> 20x higher and a suicide rate 5x higher than Europe
> ain't good? The car crash thing in absolute terms
> may
> just be due to numerical size of pop.
>
> -B.
Sure, I've got no problem with that. That's one of the ACTUAL negatives, like highly corrupt police and high rates of alcoholism and drug abuse* and the fact that St. Petersburg seems to be turning into Skinhead Central. I never said Russia was a Garden of Eden.
*I understand that Iran has the world's worst problem with heroin, BTW.
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