Making a walk through Saint Petersburg a Russian friend pointed at what he called the tallest building of his city. Seing the surprise on my face, as the building was rather big but really not that tall, he explained : this used to be the KGB-headquarters and in the old times one could see Siberia from its cellars.
‘Thank God for that,’ he says, ‘I thought Yeltsin had sold off my dacha to the liberal mafia before he'd even finish starving, freezing, medically-neglecting, and alcohol-poisoning me and a few million other Russians in the countryside to death with zero Western media coverage'.
I shan't bother to read on. It's looking at grammar mistakes like this one that has made me unsure of my own English. This is something that has not happened since I first began to write in primary school where grammar and spelling were actually taught.
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Making a walk through Saint Petersburg a Russian friend pointed at what he called the tallest building of his city. Seing the surprise on my face, as the building was rather big but really not that tall, he explained : this used to be the KGB-headquarters and in the old times one could see Siberia from its cellars.
An old man is dying in his hovel on the steppes.
‘Whose there?’ the old man asks.
