^ I read it on some douchey travel blog. I thought it sounded strange.
https://heatherandjamesinasia.wordpress....mesinasia/
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What about cold beer we hear you all ask? Well it turns out that alcohol is now banned on Kazakh and Russian trains. James found this out the hard way. He bought a bottle from a station platform, drank it with a little help from Heather, and then went to throw away the bottle in the bin at end of the carriage. We were getting close to the Russian border at this point so there were lots of undercover police with sniffer dogs on board. One of the former spotted the bottle and – thinking James was Kazakh or Russian – asked to see his ID card. By the time he realised that James doesn’t speak Russian (and therefore more bother than he’s worth) it was too late. Luckily we got away with just a brusque passport check, a once over sniff-test from the Alsatian, and a warning from a co-passenger that clarified what James had done wrong: “Beer. No.”
They probably just misunderstood the situation with the language barrier etc. the co-passenger probably just meant he's a pussy for not drinking vodka
https://heatherandjamesinasia.wordpress....mesinasia/
About 1/4 down the page
What about cold beer we hear you all ask? Well it turns out that alcohol is now banned on Kazakh and Russian trains. James found this out the hard way. He bought a bottle from a station platform, drank it with a little help from Heather, and then went to throw away the bottle in the bin at end of the carriage. We were getting close to the Russian border at this point so there were lots of undercover police with sniffer dogs on board. One of the former spotted the bottle and – thinking James was Kazakh or Russian – asked to see his ID card. By the time he realised that James doesn’t speak Russian (and therefore more bother than he’s worth) it was too late. Luckily we got away with just a brusque passport check, a once over sniff-test from the Alsatian, and a warning from a co-passenger that clarified what James had done wrong: “Beer. No.”
They probably just misunderstood the situation with the language barrier etc. the co-passenger probably just meant he's a pussy for not drinking vodka