"Unlike private businessmen, who started to invest in their core businesses in the late 1990s, (Russian) bureaucratic entrepreneurs have little incentive to do so. Their wealth is dependent on their administrative power, rather than newfangled property rights. The profits are often stashed away in foreign bank accounts or quickly spent: on luxury property in European capitals, or on their children's education in British private schools. All this is inevitably accompanied by anti-Western rhetoric and claims of Russia's resurgence." (The Economist, December 11th, 2010).
For once I thought I was reading about Kenya, my country, and our so called leaders. The bit about (secret) foreign accounts, the leaders' children's education abroad and the anti-Western rhetoric (read 'sovereignity).
We are still gullible; at least the majority of the voting public. First, the leaders rally their tribesmen to their selfish cause, then they shout themselves hoarse about sovereignity as they loot silly.
A thief by any other name would behave as such ...
