What a wonderful reply!:) Thank you - so much to read through and enjoy:)

Yes I find misreadings as interesting as common elements, attitudes etc.

Only one thing i didn't understand in your message:
"an English politician remembered Stalin's translator's opinion about Georgians, a snippet that became very visible in the Russian political blogs a few days ago: "This is no place for a white man" - he said in his impeccable North London accent etc."

I never said anything like that - nor would I raise such a fractious subject.

Anyway - thanks again, I will come back to this message again with pleasure:)