Mobilization can have many meanings. On the border with Georgia, someone took the term literally and turned it into a business: He sells scooters from the trunk of his small car. The Verkhnyj Lars border crossing was not allowed to be crossed on foot for days, only with a vehicle. After all, scooters are vehicles too. Almost two and a half thousand cars were waiting there last Saturday to leave Russia, the police said. Roller didn’t count them.

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