by Charles Clover
It’s Russia, in the freezing dark middle of January, and you have a pre-paid air ticket and hotel voucher for a week of sun on Egypt’s Red Sea coast. Only trouble is, the country is in flames. What do you do? If you’re like many Russian tourists, the matter is simple: grab your flip flops and go.
The prospect of sleeping in an airport for a few days does not seem to have discouraged thousands of sun worshipping tarvellers from Novosibirsk, Moscow and Volgograd who keep arriving in Cairo, Sharm el Sheikh, and Hurgada for a bit of ‘ikstreem’ – Russian for extreme – holiday.
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