For Katya, a 20-year-old student in the Russian capital, encountering the world at large came way of a young Mexican engineer named Axel.
The pair met in a crowded Moscow bar halfway through the World Cup, when Axel’s national team, Mexico, was still in with a chance. “The first thing I noticed was how he looked different from anyone I’ve met,” says Katya, who, like others in this story, only gave her first name.
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