You guy's are making it as an given fact that everybody speaks English, sure it would be handy if everybody uses the same language but if allot of people can't its pointless to complain here in the forum. I don't think English was the most popular foreign language to learn in the Russian schools, and us west Europeans & Americans are portrayed as the evil "west" that's trying to keep mother Russia under the thumb. I'm very happy with everybody who makes the effort to speak in an universal language, and in the case's were someone isn't able to we can use Google-translate, the modern technology makes life easy. Hairy.