All those who hope should take a look at the last distribution of merits that Ratimov gave.
He exceeded the plan for several years ahead. Now let him be a merits' holder, not a giver.

Merit holder, not a giver indeed

. He has been doing good that way and should continue. But am sure no one would be complaining if he locked up this thread. It is because the thread is still open that we have hope he is still running it. Maybe he is counting on other merit sources to frequent here and help out?