text:  The strange thing was, was that whenever I spoke to Igor, it was always in Russian. Back then my Russian was a lot better. I've forgotten so much now, but I thought he never spoke English. And then I saw him on television and his English is better than mine. And I think the reason is he always spoke Russian to make sure that I was like, you know, beneath him, which is, you know, in the hierarchy of Russians is really quite important for people to know their place.