Ultimately, a KGB boss showed up with four henchmen with machine guns at my flat and tossed me in jail for refusing to pay. I refused because it was illegal to pay bribes or extortion monies (I am staunchly, and maybe eventually even fatally, anti-corruption.) To be clear: I was imprisoned in Russia for refusing to break the law. That was five year ago.
----- ----- The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. W. Churchill