I recall reading once in an amusing satire novel based in Latin America, that one local mayor of a major metropolitan city decided that the best way to eliminate police corruption would be to lift all traffic and moving violation laws, so the police could never pull you over to solicit bribes.  That logic appears to be at work in Russia, as Julia Ioffe reports that all food inspectors have been suspended in order to crack down on the impostors.  Now there’s a solution with a much higher cost than the problem itself.

That means, starting today, no more fake doctors — or real doctors — or anyone at all, for that matter, inspecting supermarket shelves or the country’s ubiquitous outdoor markets for fake, outdated, or blitzed-up bread, booze, drinking water, fish conserves, meat products, sausages, and salt.