Russia bans McDonalds

http://english.pravda.ru/business/companies/25-07-2014/128162-mcdonalds_russia-0/

that is official, coming from now reinstated http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pravda newspaper.

Russia forces parents to pay for homeschooling:
http://www.mn.ru/society_edu/20120829/326053858.html

So if you want your children to be exempt from government propaganda, inferior education and bullying, you have to pay $2000/year to be allowed keeping your child at home. That is enormous money for Russia (many will happily take your life for it).