> a main highway between Russia's two largest cities It is not. Moscow and St. Petersburg are 900 km apart and they never had a highway between them. Instead

> a main highway between Russia's two largest cities It is not. Moscow and St. Petersburg are 900 km apart and they never had a highway between them. Instead it's a patchwork of provincial roads most of the way. He could've chosen any city 900 km away from Moscow and his cherry-picked story would've stayed absolutely the same.