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No time for Russian trains

Vocabulary

cross-border

international

the clocks

the times

faces

has to deal with

abandoned

gave up

bi-annual

twice a year

summer time

a temporary time that has been added by an hour to give more daylight in the afternoon

permanent

fixed

one way or another

to make the plan official or to reject it