Filling station in Russia's southern republic of Dagestan

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Published 19 October, 2007, 14:25

Sometimes even such large objects as a gas station can be faked to look like the real McCoy. These ones in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan look like “Shell” or “BP” but in fact they are “Shelf” and “BG”.

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