Quote Originally Posted by zxc View Post
My experience in the big cities over there is that the cars aren't going to stop for you whether there's a crosswalk or not
In Moscow in the early 1990s, I was terrified by seeing people drive with their headlights off at night -- they wanted to "economize on headlights," because of the difficulty in buying replacement lamps!!!!

Hopefully, this was a result of Soviet shortages, and this habit has disappeared in post-Soviet times.