DED MOROZ CAN'T STOP A TRAIN. Moscow gets a lot of snow, but 63 cm in one go is a bit much. (Washington, D.C. got at least one dose that size: a new cold war?)

Drivers were asked to leave their cars at home but rail services are said to have been unaffected by the weather.

A Moscow railway spokesman said that 4,471km (2,778m) of track had been cleared of snow on Sunday.

In all, about 15,000 snow-clearing machines were deployed in the city of about 10.5 million people, backed by 8,500 dump trucks and about 5,500 street-sweeping personnel.

Is there someone in D.C. government telling Congress about a dump truck gap?