Oleg on his daily commute

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Originally Posted by Trumper

Quick questions hopefully some one can answer

1,why are they filming the journey,is this normal? possibly blame culture and you need proof.

2, seems to be no control at junctions,just seems to be a massive free for all

3, i bet the hospitals must be full of injured people,do they have to have insurance there to cover this.

I find this really scary,unfortunately i believe some of these practices are tried now in this country by people moving over here.

1. See above.

2. In smaller cities there are many junctions without traffic lights yet. A car coming form the right-hand side has priority if there are no other signs.

3. There is some small insurance and there are free hospitals (lower quality).

Road deaths statistics is very bad. Main reason is roads without central separation line which causes head strikes as you can see. Sadly I have to blame corruption for this. Also in most seasons there is poor visibility due to raining and snowing. Gogol in 19th century mentioned that one of Russian characters is to "harness slowly but ride fast"...

Driving culture in general is an issue: Christianity is only about 1000 years old in Russia, then happened 250+ years of Tatar-Mongol yoke, then slavery was cancelled only about 150 years ago, most of people of high culture had to leave the country after 1917 or were killed by communists and then by nazis in WWII. My personal opinion only that can be wrong.