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I'm reminded of Daniel J. Bernstein's post "My trip to Russia / Maybe jail isn't such a bad option" from 2000: https://cr.yp.to/conferences/russia.html

He woke up in the middle of the night not able to breathe with some sort of toxic gas permeating his hotel room.

Very entertaining read, but the gas is wild. Did he ever get any more information on what occurred?

Is this just a thing that happens in Russia? Was it a broken pipe?

Reminds me of Dracula, and the stagecoach trip through the Carpathians