ST PETERSBURG ON WHEELS

Throw your hand in the air and any average car - be it a Lada, Moscvich, Volga or VAZ - will pull up within seconds.

In a city as starved of taxis and money as St Petersburg, virtually every car in the city is an unofficial cab prepared to drive half an hour or more out of its way for as little as $1.50.

That is of course providing the passenger is a Russian. In a city where the famous Winter Palace-Hermitage Museum now charges more than 100 times as much for foreigners as locals, people who talk funny are considered fare game.

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