One says, 'You know, since we live in America, we should learn English.' Meanwhile, there's a man in the water, waving his hands frantically, screaming, 'Help!' The two Russians ignore him, so the man drowns".
The spambot problem has vexed Western law enforcement officials, who complain the Russians ignore losses to global businesses that pay about $6 billion annually for spam filters, and to companies like Pfizer for sales lost to counterfeit pills.
Russian courts ignored a similar international outcry last year when they sentenced members of the group Pussy Riot to two years in prison for protesting in a church.
Russian reporters ignored the massive theft, too, even after police confirmed it had occurred and tried to pin the blame on a lone, unlikely suspect: an ex-con employed at a sawmill.
But the Russian government ignored the appeal and President Vladimir Putin's press secretary denied any knowledge of Snowden's movements.
If we created a no-fly zone in Syria, what would Clinton do if a Russian plane ignored us and flew right through it?
That is precisely the argument the West has used -- and Russians have ignored -- in Moscow's own war against Islamic extremists in Chechnya.
The Russians have ignored sanctions on Abkhazia meant to force the Abkhaz to take back their refugees, and have also given most Abkhaz Russian passports that let them travel abroad.
It was unfortunate that the Russians then ignored the requirement to pull their troops out of Georgia proper, but Mr Sarkozy had a response to this too: he threatened to call an EU summit.Mr Sarkozy's activism may be admirable, but not all the lessons he is drawing from the crisis are convincing.
American mathematicians, meanwhile, had moved ahead in areas that Russians largely ignored.
