The soldier in his padded blue-and-grey winter jacket and traditional sheepskin ushanka hat read my passport very slowly, struggling to identify the Western-alphabet surname so he could check it against the Cyrillic list on his clipboard.
The soldier in his padded blue-and-grey winter jacket and traditional sheepskin ushanka hat read my passport very slowly, struggling to identify the Western-alphabet surname so he could check it against the Cyrillic list on his clipboard.