By Ivan Anderzhanov
Trading on Moscow's stock exchanges almost came to a standstill today after a massive acrid plume of smog enveloped the city.
Bankers were handed out individual respiration masks and some were told to work from home or to book into hotel rooms to minimise their travel.
The towers of the emerging business district of Moscow City, which is home to VTB and Renaissance Capital, were barely discernible due to the dense clouds.
The thick smoke was caused by intense fire raging in to the south and east of Moscow. Burning in dry peat bogs and forests produced a dense plume of smoke that blew across the city.
Financiers spent most of the day figuring out how to escape the nauseous fumes. Most were frantically trying to book jet-planes out of the capital seeing as most of dacha-land was engulfed by the cloud.
The high-speed Sapsan train was booked out early on Friday as people scrambled to get to St Petersburg where temperatures are a tolerable 32 and where fresh air is in plenty supply.
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