What Is This Vehicle?

clue, it is Russian,

the answer is that it is a taxi, in St. Petersburg, Russia, they originally started out as a amphibious scout vehicle, as a BRDM (Boyevaya Razvedyvatelnaya Dozornaya Mashina, translated roughly as 'Combat Reconnaissance Patrol Vehicle'), as many as 10,000 of which were built built between 1959 and 1966 for use by Warsaw Pact armed forces,

 less than 600 survive to the present day, including a few that have been converted into all-weather amphibious taxis by enterprising entrepreneurs in St. Petersburg, the name on the side of the cabs, 'A Safer Taxi', just happens to be one of their biggest selling points,

other than decommissioning their guns the major change is that they have been painted pink, the main reason for the choice of colour is 'so that not to scare civilians in the city,' according to one of the cab drivers as told to English Russia, word to the wise, when invading a city, paint your armoured vehicles pink, the locals will not run away, so for that meeting when you have just to be there regardless of the weather call up one of these and as an added bonus it is bullet proof!