On March 31 at 9:00 am, I was driving across a bridge in Moscow. The lanes towards the city center were jammed, but I was heading in the opposite direction and my lane was more or less empty.

A black BMW was going towards the city centre, and when its driver saw the traffic jam, he moved into the opposite lane and came head-on towards me. He had a beacon light flashing on his roof, but no siren.

I signalled at him, flashing my headlights on high beam. I also began to slow down. We stopped head to head. Then I took out my camera and started to film.

People are fed up with the impunity of bureaucrats, who feel that they are privileged and above the law. Ordinary people like me ask themselves: who are all these people behind the tinted glass in expensive cars? Do they really need to ignore laws and traffic regulations? This is especially the case after the accident in Leninsky Prospect, when Vera Sidelnikova and her daughter-in-law died. Ordinary people don’t believe in the official explanation, that it was Sidelnikova's Citroen at fault.

It's events like these that push you over the edge. I’ve been driving in Moscow for many years, and it's getting worse each year: the traffic jams, the brazenness of the powerful - all these 'special license plates' that give their owners special rights. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the world, but we have to deal with it every day.

Thank God there wasn't any pressure on me from the police. Mr Shevchenko declared that what I did was a deliberate provocation against him. It's complete nonsense. As if I was waiting in a bush to jump out at him with a camera. Thankfully, they didn't declare that I was an American spy taking into account my non-Russian surname. They could have twisted it into the 'discovery' of an anti-Russian plot by Western secret services.

Now, this man (Shevchenko), who has the rank of ambassador and has worked for many years with two presidents, seriously claims that in any civilized country I would be severely punished for what I did.

You can't help thinking that these bureaucrats are detached from the people. When you drive in the morning on Kutuzovsky Prospect, they’re speeding by the dividing strip with their flashing lights on.

People joke now that we should be grateful that they let us drive in our lanes at all."