In Russia, the lights are going out one by one. Everything one expects from an up-to-date country – cashpoints that work, Apple products, Coca Cola – is vanishing.
On Saturday night, at 3am, I ran down totally empty streets searching for the last cashpoint that would work with my British Mastercard.
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