Russian law » bureaucracy http://rublawg.com Russian legal reality Thu, 30 Dec 2010 09:33:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 We don’t need cars with flashers! http://rublawg.com/2010/we-dont-need-cars-with-flasher/ http://rublawg.com/2010/we-dont-need-cars-with-flasher/#comments Tue, 06 Apr 2010 05:21:29 +0000 Evgeny http://rublawg.com/?p=89 Maybe we are witnesses of the birth of a civil society in Russia when people don’t want to be ruled any more without a paying any attention to their wishes and needs. One of the last examples is a new social movement against cars with flashers (Here in Russia a lot of officials and their friends in commercial structures use this kind of equipment. It allows them to break traffic rules. For instance they may drive a wrong side of a road when a right side is blocked by a traffic jam).

This movement was launched last week when one citizen had blocked a car at a wrong side of the road with a President adviser with in it. And now we have a lot of discussions on this topic on Russian branch of the Internet. New videos of blocked cars with flashers appear almost every day. Of course, it doesn’t concern police, fire and ambulance cars.

You can see this first action here:

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Some readers can think that it is a linguistic question or something of this sort and it’s not connected with the law and legal matter. But the practice shows that these issues are very connected.

A family from Kaliningrad cannot receive a special payment from the government fund which it pays when a second child in a family has been born. The reason for this denial is the difference between surnames in mother and children’s documents. The mother’s documents have the rare letter which I’ve mentioned in the surname. But children’s documents have instead of it letter “e”.

Government bodies recommend family to change their documents, but it’s very difficult in Russia because of long ranges and bureaucracy procedures…

Source: rian.ru

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