Nashi's Nicer Brother. Pro-Kremlin Group Takes On Traffic Violators
"MOSCOW -- It may not be the most appealing kind of activism. But it certainly makes for interesting, and often viral, YouTube footage.
During Friday rush-hour, Artyom Leonov, 20, and a group of activists, travel to a heaving, traffic-clogged highway in northern Moscow where they lie in wait for hours with video cameras. Their quarry: cars illegally driving on the hard-shoulder.
When one comes, the activists physically block the car, and firmly call upon the driver to reverse back onto the highway as the cameras roll -- an irritating humiliation for the motorist that every now and again elicits a spectacular hail of abuse and physical threats, all captured in high-definition color." --Tom Balmforth
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