This arrived in my Economist Cities Guide: Moscow Briefing last night (the name of which, let's face it, is just supposed to make politics nerds feel cooler about themselves)
Snow finally fell on the city on January 20th, at which many Muscovites breathed a sigh of relief. After a brief dusting in October, the Russian capital has endured an unnervingly warm winter and its highest average January temperatures in 130 years. Russian newspapers have been busily printing articles about how to avoid wintertime depression caused by too much heat and too little snow. “There never were such winters under communism,” Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper claimed wistfully, partly in jest, but truly enough.
BoldItalix added for emphasis. ;-)
take the best part write it in your caffeine diary
