Not only are they slowed by the Soviet-era mentality of efficiency, but also lack basic IT skills. Poor old bureaucrats: Looks like they had better study up before Dima gives them the boot...
From Associated Press:
Russia's new 42-year-old president showed frustration with government officials who do not know how to use a computer and warned Thursday that they could soon be out of a job."They either should learn or, as they say, goodbye," President Dmitry Medvedev said. "We don't hire people who can't read and write. Computer literacy today is the same."
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This is exactly what used to happen in the USSR. Instead of any actual reform, a few angry public pronouncements about a subject having nothing to do with anything, for public consumption.
The proof it didn't work at all is the fact that the USSR collapsed.
What a cosmic joke! This is a a country in the fast lane into the crapper!
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July 18, 2008 10:33 AM
Posted on July 18, 2008 10:33