And now something about vulgarity:

‘But what has struck people almost as much as the content of the conversations is the tone, the callous way government ministers plot to punish their enemies. In one tape, the head of the secret police, who is also the prime minister’s cousin, gleefully talks about having a political opponent raped in prison.
“They are so vulgar,” said Jabir Deralla, president of a local human rights and elections-monitoring group called Civil. “How easily they speak about human life and death.”’

Read the article by Rick Lyman in the NYT here.

This is about vulgarity, elected and unelected officials in Macedonia, but I’m doubtful whether it’s much better elsewhere. Less vulgar maybe.