Why not to drink vodka on trains with Siberians
May 2nd 2010 I wandered down the aisle of the 60-person common carriage of the Moscow - Severobaikalsk train. I was bording it at Krasnoyarsk, thirty hours before the end of its journey, but I wondered whether any of the mostly sleeping people around me were really doing the whole multi-day trip right from its beginning, 4000km west of here.
After swapping beds with a small, dark-skinned man who wanted to b
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