Nothing, public opinion polls show, is more resented than privileges for the few amid hardship for the masses. 
Why, asked Komsomolskaya Pravda the other day, for example, was the defence ministry building a country villa for one of its top brass at a cost of 674,000 roubles, `when the army can't find homes for thousands of officers and their families?" 
Much of Boris Yeltsin's appeal <tag "515648">derives</> from his tirades against `spepts-shops", `spets-clinics", and the like: `spets" being the Russian abbreviation for `spetsialny", as these establishments are coyly described.   

