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Putin has an amazing capability for retaining detail. His sense of responsibility for the well being of the nation state is superb and so is his execution.

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I thought the same. It's the same as he meets with other regional heads, a well briefed and attentive attitude to serving public interest. Once long ago I started reading the Saker's blog and began an appreciation of what real leadership of a nation looks like.

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I sincerely hope the long fought for peace is achieved soon and of long standing duration under hindered by the terrorist actions of the seething empire.

Zivyela sloboda!

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Thank you!

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Of all the public services, policing isn’t mentioned. I’d be interested to know how much is invested in it, and how it functions.

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That's an excellent question. I know there's additional protection due to proximity to SMO zone; otherwise, the organization is the same as any other Russian oblast. Since they were initially independent republics, Luhansk and Donetsk may have an attorney general position that heads the judicial branch of government. I just conducted a Yandex search using policing in Russia as the term and got many helpful responses, some of which are in English. One immediate difference between Russia and USA is the police is a national structure, not state and local. Here's a curious article of which I'd note the author and his institutional bias, https://www.marshallcenter.org/en/publications/security-insights/law-enforcement-agencies-russian-domestic-security-and-international-implications-0 Here's another biased Western source, https://sgp.fas.org/crs/row/IF11647.pdf

Note that the two links were both published in 2020. They provide a structural basis for further investigation which are the only neutral areas of their biased reporting, although they clearly show what most interests US Government pukes.

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Both papers apply to the USA. The beam-mote effect. They’re considering the Russian versions of MI5 and MI6 or their equivalents in America. The squabblings of the courtiers of enforcing governance seems to interest them more than the practicalities of effectively managing regional and local social order.

My query was about local domestic policing, municipal community regulation. This has very little to do with National Security Agencies.

As the 4 Russian oblasts in Ukraine are progressively liberated from Nazi [ethnofascist] occupation, local policing will become vital. Perhaps ‘Putin’ has no plans for investing in local policing. As former inhabitants reoccupy their properties local policing will become necessary to ensure that there is no looting and false claiming of housing [possession gazumping]. People whose homes and workplaces have been destroyed require a system for restoration of their lives and the necessities for living. Municipal administrations will have almost intractable problems to deal with. Local policing will be an important factor in successfully accomplishing the solving of the myriad of problems arising.

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You seem to have missed this: " One immediate difference between Russia and USA is the police is a national structure, not state and local." The national police and Federal Security Bureau (FSB) likely have organizational areas of operations that correspond to local, but they're federally financed, which frees municipal budgets of that cost. There's another branch of law enforcement--the Prosecutor General, which is also a federal institution that also existed in the USSR.

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Maybe if we Americanos ask VVP extremely nicely, he'll teach us how to put roofs over every1's head.

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You are aware he trained as a carpenter and built housing during his annual Summer Construction Camp experiences. Of course, housing in Russia continues to be of the high-density high-rise apartment block type, not suburban dachas.

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COOL ! I wasn't aware. That's like Jesus and, kinda, me.

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Carpenter, Attorney, Economist, President, Tamer of the Siberian tiger, judo black belt, former KGB polyglot. Liberator, appreciater of fine culture.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin appears to be the Renaissance Man.

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Old Russian Intelligentsia is what I see. His vision for Russia's future is very vivid and possible. It was delivered last year on Leap Day, https://karlof1.substack.com/p/leap-day-putins-address-to-the-federal

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I am an American so when we refer to Kindergarten, we are referring to a child's first year of school. My question is does Russia refer to Kindergarten as all grades of elementary school similar to as Germany does?

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No. It's as it is here, the initial start of the non-parental educational process. You'll want to know Russia's reverting to the superior Soviet schooling method than the Bologna that was introduced in the last Gorbachev years and met with resistance. I cover Russian education vert closely.

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Thanks. I am interested in the Soviet system.

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What's now under construction will be a vast improvement over the Soviet system. Many of my reports have education as a component. But the most comprehensive description of the future of education and more is from Putin's Leap Day speech, https://karlof1.substack.com/p/leap-day-putins-address-to-the-federal

The work that went into compiling the speech's content lasted about 8 months where Putin traveled all over Russia and talked to the full spectrum of people within Russia. The outcome is Putin laying down what is to follow after he steps down in 2030. Yes, it's a seminal speech. And soon after the election, all of Team Putin began working to make the vision reality. And that process is also fascinating.

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