Remember the Trans-Siberian rally I mentioned a while back? Rally cars racing from one end of Russia to the other. Well, they had a train to accompany them, just in case one of the cars broke down…
Kravtsov set up a special train to follow the rally. Like a huge house on wheels, it was home to the race organizers, support crew and the media for two weeks.
"The idea was to promote our company, thus we initially painted the whole train in orange — the colors of the expedition," he said.
It turned out to be a bad idea. With the Orange Revolution sweeping Viktor Yushchenko into power in Ukraine a couple of months earlier, Russia’s power brokers did not like the political overtones of an orange train riding through their countryside.
"We don’t want to be involved in politics," said Kravtsov, explaining his decision to repaint the train white.
Perhaps he thought that white would afford him some camouflage in Siberia.
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