Re: Russian
it's a cultural thing that means they tend not to smile much in public.
And they do a nice line in lip-curled, non-smiling "нет".
So that begs the question, why was he smiling in that last photo? Since he looks a bit like me, and I don't often crack a smile either, I'm guessing he'd just let rip with a thermobaric SBD. Always brings a smile to my face to do that, watch colleagues faces go green, see them stagger and retch, whilst I act outraged and deny any accountability.