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First, a little background. Since most of my readers are non-Russian, I will need to explain the significance of March 8th and give a short rundown of what the heck is GIBBD. March 8th is known as the International Women's Day. On this day, Russian men are supposed to give presents to the women in their lives - female relatives, female friends, female co-workers, etc. GIBBD (which can be directly translated as DERTS -Department for Ensuring Road Traffic Safety) is a Russian law enforcement agency that handle all legal matters relating the road safety. They stop people for speeding, track down stolen cars, make sure legally owned cars haven't been illegally modified, etc.
Now that all that background is out of the way, let's get on to the matter at hand.
Earlier this year, the city of Nizhniy Tagil became rather infamous when a batalion commander of one the city's GIBBD units decided to show his appreciation for his female subordinates and hired a male stripper to perform at his station's March 8th Party . Apparently, the party got roudy. The problem is that someone filmed the whole thing with their mobile phone and, within days, the video went viral on the Russian-speaking Internet.
For a while, there was lots of back-and-forth about who was responsible and who should be punished. But arlier today, head of the district GIBBD decided to fire the commander who was responsible for (as he hastened to emphasize) hiring a stripper to perform during work hours. Because, you see, GIBBD has no problem with stripping, so long as it's done in legal strip clubs. He wouldn't try to stop his officers from going to strip-clubs on their own time, but official parties should be safe for children, which is why what the commander did was wrong.
The funniest part of this story is that the commander apperantly tried to avoid being fired by calling in sick (because, apparently, Russian law doesn't allow you to fire people while they are out sick).
Oy... Motherland my motherland.
For those of you who do understand Russian, I embedded NTV's news story on the matter below:
Now that all that background is out of the way, let's get on to the matter at hand.
Earlier this year, the city of Nizhniy Tagil became rather infamous when a batalion commander of one the city's GIBBD units decided to show his appreciation for his female subordinates and hired a male stripper to perform at his station's March 8th Party . Apparently, the party got roudy. The problem is that someone filmed the whole thing with their mobile phone and, within days, the video went viral on the Russian-speaking Internet.
For a while, there was lots of back-and-forth about who was responsible and who should be punished. But arlier today, head of the district GIBBD decided to fire the commander who was responsible for (as he hastened to emphasize) hiring a stripper to perform during work hours. Because, you see, GIBBD has no problem with stripping, so long as it's done in legal strip clubs. He wouldn't try to stop his officers from going to strip-clubs on their own time, but official parties should be safe for children, which is why what the commander did was wrong.
The funniest part of this story is that the commander apperantly tried to avoid being fired by calling in sick (because, apparently, Russian law doesn't allow you to fire people while they are out sick).
Oy... Motherland my motherland.
For those of you who do understand Russian, I embedded NTV's news story on the matter below:
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