Siberia

To improve their odds, Russian majors planned to tap shale formations in Siberia using techniques developed in Texas and North Dakota but the war prevented them.

Owners of small and independent petrol stations in Siberia have told Russian media they have had to shut down due to ongoing issues with fuel supply.

“I know quite well what happened in the Soviet Union because my wife is from Siberia,” says Herzog.

“Ten years ago, I was one of the worst. Orange County, that was worse than Siberia at the time. But things change.”

In Krasnoyarsk, a city of more than a million people in Siberia, mobile internet vanished citywide for three days in July and still works poorly.