In another example, a Yekaterinburg entrepreneur, fed up with the condition of local sidewalks and roads, spent some of his own money to fix a portion of a sidewalk downtown. “I got tired of dirt in the city,” he told a Current Time reporter. He said he hoped municipal authorities could learn something from him. A Current Time digital video about the effort was viewed some 1 million times in two days on various platforms and the story was picked up widely by Russian media.