For weeks the electricity supply to the apartment block at 173 Tangshaya Street in Moscow"s Tagansky 18 district had been cutting off five or six times a day, leading the residents to complain to the municipal electricity company, but none as fervently as widow Lavinsky in apartment number two on the ground floor. When the van arrived a day late from her last call she welcomed them with a barrage of abusive language that left the two engineers in no doubt how inconvenienced she had been.
“I like watching that American series called Awkward and the British show, Geordie Shore on the MTV channel since they both began. I have now missed two episodes of each since your f…… electricity broke down you f…… w****s. Fix it, or I write to Putin himself and he f…the lot of you.”
Unlike some enginee
