Well, that certainly came to a head quickly! Olya and Vasya sit in the building coffee room, Olya asks if he will talk to Dima, the son, and then quickly follows up with "Will you watch him? A potential stepfather has appeared"--and shows him a pic on her phone of Vasya's replacement. "A banker. Private home." "Good," is Vasya's only response. (?) You see how good these writers are? They examine the ethical issues from every angle: Olya is not cheating, she and Vasya are divorced, it is not surreptitious (would it be wrong if it were, the writers ask you?), she tells Vasya about it and he is completely okay with it. So there's no ethical issue here.
What about Poland? What if it turns out not to be Poland. Why would she lie about that and if she is going somewhere other than Poland and if she is going there with "the potential stepfather", what, is it one of the Seven Deadly Sins to go to Romania and not Poland? So the cash value of the lie, if it's a lie, would be pennies.
Wait...Banker...It was not my impression that the vault keeper was a banker...but where do you keep bars of gold if not in a bank and who is in charge of a bank but a "banker"? Dimitryi has to be the banker, no? I mean, come one. If it is, since she met him on state business...no, get outta town, that's not an ethical thing.
Speaking of cash value...Who's paying for the trip? The state? Is it still state business or was that a lie? Is it partly state business but Olya is piggybacking a little hump-hump? Very whitish gray. But if the state biz story is a complete ruse then who is paying for happy time wherever is a BIG ethical issue.
...When she takes her leave of Vasya in the coffee shop she says, "Don't forget about your visa". So she did mention Vasya's visa before and brings it up again here...There is something fishy there...
