“How infidelity has become accepted and even expected in Russia”

Slate: “Wandering spouses have become a common trope for the women of Moscow. ‘Men’s environment here pushes them towards cheating,’ Tanya told me, adding that, these days, a boys’ night out in Russia often involves prostitutes . . . Infidelity in Moscow has become ‘a way of life,’ as another friend of mine put it—accepted and even expected.”