How Russians changed my life: Jonathan from the United Kingdom
How Russians changed my life: Jonathan from the United Kingdom Jonathan Campion; Getty Images From business meetings in Moscow City to eerie encounters in Ulan-Ude, my life has been shaped by conversations with Russians. I learned Russian at university. I never liked studying from textbooks, so between lessons I picked up the language in other ways. This was 2003, before social media, YouTube and Amazon; to hear Russian spoken I had to order DVDs - Nochnoy Dozor, Brat, Progulka - on Ebay from a warehouse in Krasnoyarsk and wait a month for them to arrive. Some of my first Rus...