This statement from the article might explain why people in Russia drive the way they do...no fear of ever being pulled over.
------------------I was then piled into a car and we were off and a ridiculous speed in the pouring rain and fog and on the wrong side of the road for most of the time. There were police everywhere who didn?t even give us a sideways glance as we ripped past them at light speed on the wrong side of the road.----------------------
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