The minister said he had been confronted with press reports which laid out the soldiers' route and that he had responded "rather imprecisely" to journalists' questions.
Having run on a platform (if that term can be applied to something so imprecisely defined) of restoring strong central control, chances are that Russian civil liberties are going to suffer.
Priest raises an important point about the TIC: as a society we are incurring enormous, though imprecisely measured costs on its behalf, yet we do not know whether the benefits we get as a society exceed those costs.
At maximum this allows you to go from lock to lock ridiculously quickly (and imprecisely), but just a few points of drift helped to counter-act the game's programmed resistance and gave the feel of a very over-boosted power steering setup.