I've played a Russian before and I found it helped to imagine a soft creamy but sinister Russian accent and write vocab to match that personality, a few oddly chosen words helped to give a bit of a twist to her.<br/><br/>I did think the language made Svetlana feel very American but she's your character, I hate to pick holes in her - in case she gets my puppy alone in a dark alley.  :-[ :-X