Desperately in need of money, Vyacheslav Abdullin thought he had the answer when he found work building the Kerch Strait Bridge, a top-priority project for Moscow to link Russia with the annexed Ukrainian region of Crimea. But after just one month on the job, Abdullin left — penniless, fed up with what he said were inhuman working conditions, and furious at his employers’ broken promises — to walk the 600 kilometers back to his wife and children. …read more