The enegy companies just say they have to recoup the cost of investing in future infrastructure and your bill goes up about 3 x inflation each year. The same goes for food and public transport etc. Living standards are now similar to what they were in the 70s in UK.

If you want to drain a swamp, you first have to wrestle with the alligators.  Then when there is less water, more alligators come out of hiding.  Stories like this hardly got coverage twenty years ago.  "Everybody does it."  Well, soon "everybody" will NOT do it, because even the most venal officials will have to be more discreet.  The auditors should be protected and should keep writing their reports and keep publicizing the corruption.  Crooks are going to jail, according to other stories in RT and RIA Novosti.  The government is just starting to clean up a multi-generational mess.  Good luck to all the cleaning crew.

Is Kursk,ups i meen Sputin,no sorry,Krim,no damn me,Russia realy corrupt,what do know.Here silly me was thunking,gangprospec t hangaround,lone wolf,chief in commrad billionaer,was clean as an unused dipper,waw,every day has its mindblowing revelation,like the Dane cheif of Riis doping circus,Lars Seier C,telling the Danes,how to run their circus,after he flet the contry,you know,only paying 2% tax,and running his Neoliberal parti from Swizzerland,aint we just lucky,we Have democracy,yes we have democracy to deal with this kind of criminals,just like in såain,they deal with Rayo,leader of the pain driven contry,but they are lucky to,they have democracy,oh yes,just the Corrupted Greece,with unemployment rate for young people at 60+%and a goldman who tricked everybody to belive,they where within the Convergensdemand debt to gdp at 3%,but they are damn lucky to,they to have democracy,just like the English,whos Banks ran the Libor scandal,they have the same luckracy,they even like the sweedes danish dutch belgiums spains have royal familys,that before in time,meening before the luck stroke with democracy,held them as slaves,now the people pay their livelyhold,yes under the banner of ,yes ,democracy,same democracy,under which,the bankers recived bonuses,whilst the people who pay for these bonuses,got Austerity,se,this is how demo/hipocracy works,and the hencemen,to this democracy,is the politicians???The people elected???What,did the people choose,their own hangman,well,this say a lot about the people,but still more about their Hangmen:Worst but not so common debated(Hundred of the most rich,could save the poors four time,remmember one would be enogh)???Here comes,how many more times 70 years,shal the slaugtered people still contribute to the biggest Illusion,UN,to erase powerty,when the hundred most rich,could do it just using a quater of what they made in 2012???Bip bob,thunk on that one,its also called democracy,meening,th e people gives charity to UN,who pay diplomats heavenly high salerys,to administrate,what the people gave to the poor,my thought here is,Who on earth,would be so dumb?????YOU!!!!!