Backbytes: Kremlin gets into a GPS jam in Moscow

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Muscovites have to resort to roadmaps to get around the Russian capital

For some time now, Muscovites have observed how their satnavs go bonkers the closer to the centre of Moscow they go. Hence, if you had a job interview at a prestigious address in Moscow, you'd be a...

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