Jume 29, crossing to russia

After a night in a strange soviet style hotel in oskemen I head to a
Small border hoping It will be fast to cross .'the 200km road is completely broken and I damage a bit more the front wheel rim in the potholes as I forgot to inflate the wheels properly .
, some villages could be Borat village, if btw Kazakstan is definitly not the cliche the movie brings - but quite a developed country with lot of money and many big cars -

A finally a very straightforward border crossing to Russia.
In Rubtskovk , I m hosted buy a young biker , Russian , (his name !) in his apartment - interesting experience as he doesn't speak English and we use google translate to communicate
rubskovsk is a typical poor small Russian city - old and damaged apartments blocks, muddy surrounds , very strange place . Russian s apartment is old and in very bad conditions it seems that Ithe roof will fall down on my head . And pipes will blast,..
In the building the only weird thing is the presence of big steel safety door locked with electronic commands !
And in the middle of the others age living space there is ... 100 MB Internet for 600 roubles (15 euros ! )
Same cliche with his car, a 30 years old Lada-That works I don't know how
I meet one I his biker friends , in his "garage " with 2 motorcycles one honda 350 and one honda 500 xls he made one , adapting one engine on one chassis , welding the missing part - motivated people who must build things as this is impossible to find any supplies
I try to invite them for a drink down town , and they come back with a jerrycans of .. 10 litters of beer and weird dry and smelly fishes as snacks - and everywhere in the city there are people , young as less young drinking their beer or vodka and eating the weird fishes - absolutely surrealist.
Interesting experience