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in about a week. - Thank you!

Use a different exit so as

not to irritate anyone.

It comes out the

other end of the hall.

- Mom! - I'll kill you!

You dumb little b*tch!

Seven lines without mistakes

in an essay of two pages.

She's become interested

in philology only recently.

Well, then she should

come back next year.

Shed be happy with any other major

since she has so many mistakes.

Right. Next year.

Are there no...

other options?

The exams are over. Here's her

essay, stamped and signed.

Well, there's

always a way out...

There is. Right ahead,

then straight down the hall.

Understand your irony.

I'm sorry.

Sorry, have to go now.

I'll leave my card just in case

something unexpectedly turns up.

Let's go,.sweetie.

Apologies for having

to meet like this.

Take it there's an opportunity

to redo the entrance exam.

More or less.

I'm so grateful. I'm a father,

so you must realize.

- It's not going to be easy, is it?

- No.

Know. There are so many

corrupt people to pay off.

I'm so grateful that you,

an honest person,

have agreed to take time

to settle things for us.

- The entire amount?

- Yes.

Sir, you have a visitor.

Prepare her for surgery.

Hold on, Mom. I'll be here.

Try to be strong.

- We had a meeting set for noon...

- Let's talk someplace else.

- Sorry, I'm early.

- It's all right. Did you drive?

No, used public transport.

- Do you mind if we talk

in a restroom? - Why not?

- Sorry, it's not too clean.

- It's all right.

- Sorry.

- It's all right.

That is the best they get.

At least we can

talk in private.

Here are the papers,

written exactly as you said.

And this is what

we agreed on.

Great.

- You might want to count it.

- Trust you.

And this is from my wife.

- Sorry. Can wash the money.

- It's all right.

It's my fault we're meeting

in a place like this.

- How's your wife?

- She sends her greetings.

- Is your son going to university?

- We'll see to it. How are you?

Pretty well.

F***, that's nasty!

- Hello, sir.

- Did you find us all right?

So, six more months,

and you can move in.

Really hope so...

have something for you.

Come on, are you serious?

Shouldn't have?

Sorry. My mistake.

Here are the account details.

Copy them in your own hand.

I've memorized them.

Which appartment is mine?

One of these. They are considered

social housing". The governor

is forcing us to give up two

apartments in every building.

- Hello, sir! - Hello!

You're not going on a swim?

Have a cold,

so don't want to risk it.

Boys, we'll have lunch over there.

So, what brings you here?

Hate to disturb your vacation.

And never have the time

when I'm working.

- Well, it's the same old problem.

- What kind of problem?

You know, bureaucracy.

It keeps business from growing.

We could have been providing

social housing for a while now.

We could allot three more

apartments on every floor

for those on the waiting list. Each

of them is about 400 square meters.

We as developers could transfer

these apartments to the regional

housing fund, and you...

could distribute

them as you see fit.

- Well, what can say.

- That's my offer.

Good to hear developers are

taking an interest in social issues.

It's the most pressing thing.

Exactly. We could build a new

neighborhood near the cemetery,

but we can't get the permission.

A whole neighborhood?

Imagine how much social

housing could come out of it.

Do you think people will

buy apartments there?

People will snap them up -

Muscovites too!

It's connected to Moscow

by a highway.

It's certainly wrong to put an

important project like this on hold.

Thank you so much.

No, thank you.

Hello, sir.

- Want some tea?

- With pleasure.

Please don't bother.

I'll pour it myself.

- Cookies?

- With pleasure.

Domestic brand. Western sweets

seem to be more in fashion,

- but prefer domestic product.

- With pleasure.

I've been reading Karamzin's

works on Russian history lately.

His thoughts on pleasure.

The first days after the death

of a tyrant..." No, wait,

that's not it. Here it is:

The end of suffering

gives the biggest pleasure

a human being

can experience."

Meaning?

When you're in your normal state,

it's nice to feel pleasant things.

What if someone is feeling bad

or suffering? Then, when it ends,

the fact of it ending becomes

the greatest pleasure you can have..

Very profound.

- That's Karamzin.

- Why have you told me that?

Think everyone should

rest once in a while.

It's not healthy to work all the

time. Can feel that you're tired.

I'm not.

You certainly are.

But I'm good at what do.

A dignified man like you

will always find something to do.

Administering an entire region

is a very difficult task these days.

There are younger men who are

well-suited to the challenge.

What about experience?

- What kind of experience?

- Administering experience.

I've been reading the papers,

and it appears that your entire

experience of administering

is, to put it mildly, outdated.

Know your regional papers

would never publish that.

- Read it in a Moscow paper.

- And what does it say?

It's hard to believe

you don't read this stuff.

I've read it, of course.

But can't react to every insult.

Reacting implies you're guilty.

Have to protect my status.

In Europe, people resign after

articles like these. Even taking

your daughter to school in your

official car is reason enough.

They have a civil society.

And what about us?

I've been reading Alexei

Tolstoy's Peter the Great".

Here's a bit from the dialogue

between Peter and his minister:

I've been recalling Moscow.

God, I'd love to burn it down.

They sit on all that's ancient

until their asses rot.

In a thousand years they haven't

learned how to lough the land.

A building may be tumbling down,

but none of you will prop it up.

You are so lazy you relieve

yourselves on the threshold.

We have untold land,

yet we are paupers.

I'd rather run away to Holland than

be a tsar in a country like this!"

Where does my job come in?

Do you think people are

watching me doing my job?

- Certainly.

- Including the foreign press.

What kind of opinion will they have

about me as a president

when a regional governor

is getting this kind of press,

but continues working

as if nothing happened?

Think about it.

I've been reading Klyuchevsky's

books on Russian history lately.

The least propitious condition

for the organization of government

in the Moscow state seems to be

the attitude of the Moscow tsar

towards his primary means

of administration, the Boyars."

Do you think still have

a chance to fix things?

- What do you think?

- Will do everything can.

Great idea.

Show who's the boss

to all those who think

they're above the law.

I'll help you out with the media

so they'd provide truthful coverage.

Thank you.

Hope, of course, that your region

will support the state policies.

- We certainly will. - You have

quite a troublesome region.

Many people who threaten

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