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 The words of mumbled greeting as we sat down placed him as an American from the South. At first I took him to be an engineer on his way to Russia to ply his trade in some rust-bucket Soviet-era factory in need of Western know-how, but as the plastic dinner trays were placed before us and we made small talk it became apparent that my travelling companion was a man with a story.

 He had already flown that day from Atlanta, Georgia, but his home, he told me, was Little Rock, Arkansas. ‘I guess everybody knows that’s where Bill Clinton comes from,’ he said with a laugh. ‘Little Rock’s not a bad place – if your luck holds and the creek don’t rise.’ His luck, it soon became clear, had not held. The creek had risen. His wife had fallen ill, remained ill for a long while, and then died. The medical bills wiped him out. But it was the solitude of his grief, not the debts, which brought him to breaking-point. ‘Lord, I was lonesome.’