Havana Syndrome: Could Russia’s roads go full Cuban?

Hello! This week we look at how a hike in car import fees is becoming one of the government’s most unpopular domestic policies in years, and prompted predictions that decades-old Western cars could soon be lining Russian roads.

Planned hike in cost of foreign cars triggers rare public backlash

Russia is set to increase the tax payable on most vehicles brought into the country. The planned hike in the so-called “recycling fee” has quickly become a much maligned move, with the fees for some models of imported cars set to jump hundreds of times over when the new system comes into force on November 1.