Oh your are talking to me! Maybe as a Swede you feel you want to be on a high horse and speak to 'the little people' just like the odd Big Polluting Swedish business leader. But considering I have had an interest in an IT company in Skane (Sweden - you know that nice racist place Malmo) for a few years now, I know the place quite well. So now little Swede, instead of mouthing off take the points one by one 1. like a doctor to visit you at home - explain how to do it in Malmo or Lund? 2. an ability to rent out 'your' apartment without the local mafia OK - do you need to get permission from daddy owner first? 3.like actualy being able to buy a bottle of wine in a local shop - can you pop into a coop and get one, or do you need the corrupt controlled System Bolaget? 4 like having a non oppressive tax system - what is it 23% corp, 65% for the slave worker, you chose welfare on the back of the innovative people, nice ride hey! 5. like having a free media - you even wanted to filter the internet totally? 6. like the security services not carting people off to secret prisons - Don't SAPO like to send them of to Egypt? Oh Shock horror I have been to the commie Sweden, I have seen the racial tensions and attacks. I know of the paedophiles visiting the national libraries - because Swedes used to love it. I even know about Sweden shipping weapons across their territory for the Nazis to attack Norway, hey no wonder they love you! BTW in Russia, easy to get a doctor to my house, an owner has property freedom, just pop to the local shop for a nice bottle of wine, tax is low, I write what I want, and thank god the swedish SAPO police state guards are not in Russia. So gaze into your mirror and a well, fare image will apear! Then you can think about modernising and setting some of your citizens free to reach their potential, instead of indocrinating and shakling them for the sake of the free wheelers who live off their back - end the social engineering!

Mr. Bildt is right on. Russia is neither modernized nor democratic, and it needs to be. It should be. But why isn't it? Democratic socialism works, just look at the quality of life in Sweden. Now compare it to that of Russia. Yikes, indeed? Russia is a nation rich culturally and with regard to natural resources, but it suffers as it is poorly governed, its institutions are highly corrupt and primitive, its cities are ridden with crime and poverty. I long for a day when social malaise in Russia has been cured and I can believe in Russia as a progressive and modern country. Sadly, today is not that day. To those of you who say Sweden needs to be modernized (I'm talking to you, Count Cash), shame on you. Are you really that uneducated? Have you ever been, well, anywhere other than Russia? "like a doctor to visit you at home, an ability to rent out 'your' apartment without the local mafia OK, like actualy being able to buy a bottle of wine in a local shop, like having a non oppressive tax system, like having a free media, like the security services not carting people off to secret prisons"- this is the single most bizarre and misinformed view of Sweden I believe I have ever had the displeasure of hearing. Ironically, its a rather apt description of Russia as I know it today.