The editor was a terrifying woman with mad staring eyes called Aliona Doletskaya who said things like: 'Russia can't live without a party', but it turned out that it could

The editor was a terrifying woman with mad staring eyes called Aliona Doletskaya who said things like: 'Russia can't live without a party', but it turned out that it could. Once, in my women's magazine days, I worked for a woman just like Aliona. One morning, at 9.30am, she asked me if I would oblige with a short, pointed article about anal sex. It put me right off my doughnuts. Aliona didn't mention anal sex once even though it was clear that both Russia and the magazine were already completely buggered.