2 Mohammad is among hundreds of Afghan shopkeepers at the Sevastopol Hotel. He was a soldier in the Afghan military in the 1980s and came to Moscow in the early 1990s. “I already spoke some Russian when I was still in Afghanistan, and I had met Russians, so it wasn’t that difficult to integrate here,” he says. “It also helps that there are so many of us Afghans here in Moscow." He still dreams of returning to Afghanistan. “Maybe when I’m an old man,” he says.