In Crimea, Russia has mucked it up
SOME find it relaxing to be covered head to toe in black, smelly mud. Others become a bit gloomy, particularly when the spa is half-empty and is in disputed territory. The job of Lieutenant Doctor Igor Aleksandrovich Dovgan, director of the gracelessly named Saki Military Clinical Sanatorium N.I. Pirogov, is to keep his guests on the relaxed side—the paying ones, at least. The spa, on the sunny shores of the Black Sea, pampers private clients, while taking a boot-camp approach to the wounded veterans it treats at the expense of the Russian state.
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Source: The Economist
