What is slyakot and how do Russians cope with it
What is slyakot and how do Russians cope with it RBTH 07 May 2021, 04:55 GMT+10 Imagine there are three roads - one with brown slushy snow, another with a huge puddle and a third with dirty snow in a huge puddle. Which one would you take? Residents of most Russian cities face this choice every spring. On a spring day in 2020, Maria (the name has been changed per request), a medical college student from the small town of Kamensk-Uralsky (in Sverdlovsk Region, 1,500 km from Moscow), together with a friend, was standing at the entrance to an underground passage, filled knee-high with dirty water...