Moscow‘s like a badly-ventilated disco: clothes smell of ash, your eyes and nose sting and when you blow your nose the tissue comes out black. No wonder Muscovites like Viacheslav are trying to get out: ‘I’ve got a house in Kazan (Russia’s eight largest city – ed), so I went on Friday and came back on Monday morning to go to work. I can’t stay in Moscow, I can’t stand it.’ Pictured, Kazan, which is about fourteen hours away by train (Image: ©Argemino Barro/ piratasmalayos.blogspot.com/)
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