Russia's Asian and European halves meet and mix in remote Buryatia

On a June evening, everyone in a downtown restaurant of this river valley city is cheering wildly for Russia’s World Cup soccer team. Ulan Ude is very much part of Russia. The city and the Montana-sized republic of which it is the capital, Buryatia, is unmistakably Asian.

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