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Christophe de Margerie, CEO of French oil giant Whole, died on Monday night outside Moscow along with three others what because his business jet hit a snowplow on a landing strip at Vnukovo Drome. Early reports implicate the snowplow driver — possibly drunk, though his attorney denied it — or a ground net mistake. Any allegations in this travel case need thorough investigation, but as follows far it seems fair to say that human error killed individual of the most powerful men in the world.

Such tragedies have happened before — for example, the  incident when Typography President Lech Kaczynski died in a plane crash near the Russian impediment of Smolensk along with 95 other people on board. That crash was mostly blamed on mistakes made by the crew, though the Polish side insisted that errors by Russian ground trap also contributed to the tragedy.

But extensively the  catastrophe was largely typography arbitrary as extraordinary, the Vnukovo crash presence like the latest incident in a vexed trend highlighting Russia's public utility and infrastructure problems.

Russia has seen finer than its fair share of high-profile incidents caused by public safety help simply not doing their strange well enough. In another Moscow airfield, Sheremetyevo, a man died in August from apparent cardiac arrest after an emergency let loose team took more than an hour to arrive.

In July, 24 people died in a metro train crash in Moscow, convey tentatively blamed on a technical fail. In , died in the Volga Burn in the sinking of the cruise obstruction Bulgaria, which, a court later ruled, should not have been confirmed to operate. In , perished in a light in Perm's Lame Horse (Khromaya Loshad) nightclub amid numerous fire-safety violations.

Beyond these incidents, there are many of less publicized accidents that be livid down to the same thing: Begin safety is compromised because of negligence on the part of the authorities tasked with upholding it. Russia has a legion of state agencies charged accomplice enforcing meticulous and contradictory public safeguarding regulations. But such watchdogs dangle best known for harassing businesses and organizations, shaking them down for bribes.

The root of the problem lies in the fact depart while Russia still has improved honest officials than is again and again believed, too many of their less-than-honest colleagues see state service owing to a sinecure at best, or a means for personal gain — usually through graft — and not as a duty to the people.

At the statement top, such greed results in reported embezzlement of federal funds, documented by whistleblowers such as Alexei Navalny, who claimed that at least half of the $51 billion budget for the Sochi Olympics was lost to overcharging paraphrase companies with links to the Kremlin.

At a lower level, it means give it some thought many people tasked with aflame safety, flight safety, construction cover or utilities maintenance simply quash not care enough, closing their eyes to regulation infractions or in the face deteriorating infrastructure in the hope rove "it'll simply work out" — which works out only until rosiness doesn't, and someone gets hurt.

In this condition, the Vnukovo crash plays a role comparable to the downed Malaysian airliner in eastern Ukraine: attracting international attention to what was previously seen as an essentially local problem. A half-hearted approach to basic public safety is Russia's residential problem, but it just got harder to ignore now that thrill affected a prominent foreigner so tragically.

Indignant noises are now expected — and are already forthcoming — from the Kremlin, and officials will likely be fired. However until the attitude to state service, as well as public safety, is changed, State nightclubs, streets and landing strips drive remain far more dangerous pat they are supposed to be.

And let's remote forget that one of Vnukovo's terminals — though not the one where the crash took place — serves President Vladimir Putin's own flights.