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My first sales manager role was in Russia in the early 2000s - we had sold a software database system to the Yamal Province in Far North West Siberia. They have about a third of the world's natural gas reserves and we build a database to store that data and expanded it to store information about forests and fish and reindeer other natural resources that they had. We needed to expand our market to recoup our software development expense and we decided to target Nenets province which is just to the to the west on the eastern side of the Ural Mountains. The account manager secured a meeting with the vice governor and three of us flew to Naryan Mar which is well north of the Arctic Circle. To get there you fly two hours to Arkhangelsk and then another two hours east and north. We landed there, prepared for our meeting went to the government office - to be told that the meeting was cancelled - no explanation. So out to the airport and found that the airport was fogged in - no plane could land, no plane could leave - so we went back to the hotel. Next day to the airport same thing - Airport fogged in. In fact it was fogged in until 5:00 pm in the evening and then bright sunshine all night - Midnight Sun. But the planes wouldn't come after five o'clock. Back to the hotel. Next day same thing the airport fogged in, back to the hotel and that evening we asked at the hotel is there ANYTHING to do in Naryan Mar? We couldn't find a cinema or anything we were being driven to distraction. And they told us, yes! There's a in the nearby town. I didn't know at the time that gambling and s were illegal but we jumped in a car and drove about thirty minutes late in the evening - ten, eleven o'clock at night - bright sunshine down to the went inside all dark and seedy and started playing roulette as we started chatting with the various characters around the table it became clear that one of them was vice governor of the region! And in fact, there wasn't just one vice governor there were five. The one that we had tried to meet was detained on corruption charges and the one we did meet made it very clear to us that we were not going to be selling any software. They had no funds whatsoever and he explained how that had happened. So we qualified the new Nenets province OUT. No budget and flew four hours back to Moscow the next day when the fog finally cleared. I'm Mike Adams