Do you feel that your country belongs to you and the people, or it's more like a property of a government?

yah!!

the same in china!

you love your country, don't you? then why did you say that you are like a guest in your country?

Why do you think so? As I spend all my life in Russia, here are a lot of things and people whom I love. But it has little to do with country itself.

I wish I could feel myself like a guest, but I feel myself being used, helpless and hopeless.   

I was trying not to be so direct :), but yes, generally it what I've meant. We (at least I) feel that we have no influence on the state policy. Officials can do whatever they want. But here are a lot of people who think (in fact aggressively states) that it is all ok, and Russia, its laws and its politics are the best. Maybe they are the real Russians, I do not know.     

Either they are those who make me feel mesylf being used or they've never clashed against our system. The happiest people anyway ))

Not necessarily, as I know people used to write letters to Stalin complaining on local authorities and asking for justice when it was obvious that it was his own policy. But I began this topic not to discuss Russia in particular, I rather wonder what western people think about their countries and their abilities to control their politicians.  What makes the difference?  

Yes, I think so too. I think about it recently as well.

They even use property to explain it. Although People usually pay attetion to it. So they are convinvced easy. Money still need to be down to reality, I think some of people were molded instead. They made wrong decisions, Even that made by themselve.

I even ask those people between their idea and reality.

That is very funny that they could not combine with it.

The law is not made by me. It does not big deal for me too.

So Why dont they write something  really on law?

After all, They write discipline into it too

I think that is not funny when I charge them under private

I climb to what they ask that is for the reason.

I think they had accepted discipline or they can write something really about themselve if they can not bear. Both of it do not matter for me.

Sorry for some errors

I especially curious what people from Scandinavia can say. It seems to me that these countries in this sense fare ahead from others. Even from other Western countries.