A glimpse of Russia's advertising and marketing

It’s been making a ponderous U-turn to a market economy. After a long hibernation, Russia awoke to find its erstwhile fantastic business traditions lost. Anyway, it was quick enough to grasp the ABC’s of modern market operations. It’s leapfrogged to plastic money, Internet, etc.
On the demise of the USSR, Russia’s economy found itself in shambles, of necessity relying on oil and gas – a fact attracting greedy Western attention, uninvited Western advice (often based on double standard), and Western lectures on “democracy” (especially funny when coming from some blatantly police states).