Infamous brands

Do not blame us for distrusting domestic "famous brands", for here is one more reason.

In addition to the once-popular practice of buying such a label from a certain institution, they can now even concoct "litigation" to get a certain trademark certified as "famous". Again, it does not matter if anybody ever heard about that specific brand - when a court says it is "famous", it is.

We cannot but have grudging respect for our compatriots' corner-cutting genius, although we do feel ashamed of their highly creative brainpower always being used in wrong places.