12 Angry Men - Sidney Lumet

First a couple of numbers: life expectancy at birth for males in Russia is well below Europe's and other emerging markets'. A Russian male baby born in 2010 could expect to live just 9 years above his peers in Africa.

Life expectancy at birth, male (years)
	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
Russian Federation	60.4	61.4	61.8	62.8	63.0
Burkina Faso	52.1	52.6	53.0	53.5	54.0
Nigeria	48.8	49.3	49.7	50.2	50.6
France	77.1	77.4	77.6	77.8	78.1
Argentina	71.2	71.4	71.6	71.8	72.0
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators

Likewise, Russia's GDP is as dependent on natural resources as that of other examples of economic development, such as Venezuela, Guinea, Sudan, and Bolivia.

Total resource rents (as a % of GDP)
Ranking in 2009	Country Name	2007	2008	2009
29	Venezuela, RB	36	36	19
30	Guinea	16	19	19
31	Russian Federation	27	30	19
32	Ecuador	27	31	18
33	United Arab Emirates	26	31	18
34	Sudan	24	26	17
35	Bolivia	36	40	16

Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators

A query of "Russian Porno" in Google retrieves 109 million results, versus 25.7 million of "Italian porno", 78.7 million of "French Porno", 19 million of "Brazilian porno", and so on.

Let's face it: were it not for its atomic bombs, its weather, and the color of its people, Russia would be considered a banana country. In Russia, Communism was the interlude between underdevelopment and underdevelopment.

But the biggest testimony of Russia's decay is the fact that Russians are now copying American cultural products... done in the 1950's...

In 2007, Nikita Mikhalkov did a loose remake of 12 Angry Men, one of the Sidney Lumet's masterpieces. It goes withouth saying, the American original is much better than the Russian copy.