joined me every thursday on the alex simon field and i was reading to get us out of the world of politics. i'm sure i'll see you there. right. having a native english speaker is both a barry t. and a curiosity for a provincial russian university samantha's classes also reveal many cultural differences in how the russians and the americans approach that world you've spent the last six years trying to get this glimpse and early soviet alive but i also assume you had to immerse yourself in the current realities of russia what are some of the cultural behavioral patterns that carry over. you know from from that time till now i mean things that shock me the sort of things that chalk you and things that are persistent. may reappear you know decades later oh you mean the what russia doesn't really have much of respect for law it's very interesting because americans are generally ruffalo as if there's a rule we don't even question it we simply get we stand in line we pick up our garbage. we just you know if there's a rule that says you need to have students do an evaluation we don't even question