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Sergej Sumlenny
@sumlenny
For those who continue to ask me about asphalt. Guys, this is the main road in diamant- and gas-rich Yakutsk region. Photos of cars stuck there after rains appear regularly. I understand that Moscow can be chic and cool, and you havn't seen anything else, but Russia is not Moscow
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Sergej Sumlenny
@sumlenny
And if you say "oh, it is far in Siberia, but this is not what happens around the capitals": this is a photo from a "Federal Highway" in Petersburg region. Please note the perfect "asphalt".
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Sergej Sumlenny
@sumlenny
As a former Russian, and a son of a medic, I can smell these pictures, so much they are authentic. It is a mixture of urine, chlorine, cold air, and cheap drugs. A terrible smell I need to say. A one cannot be erased from memory.
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Sergej Sumlenny
@sumlenny
For those who say "but Russian GDP is so high!" or "but average wealth is bigger than in Ukraine!" Guys, this is Norilsk, the home of world biggest nickel producer. 177,000 ppl live in Norilsk. The owner of NorNickel Prokhorov has $11bn wealth. This makes $62,000 per person, aha.
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Daniel
@growing_daniel
I'm confused about why you keep showing us mysterious dirty city pictures instead of just telling us median incomes to avoid the well-established statistical issues with per capita income
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