Today I spoke Russian "for real", for the first time.
No mixing up with other languages, no fallback on English.
I am in Chisinau, Moldova which is a bilingual (Russian/Moldovan) city.

1) I spoke on the telephone with the hotel cleaner who called my room.
She wanted to know when she could clean my room and I told her to do it later.

2) I asked two people for directions to the hotel that I am staying at (because I got a bit lost). Luckily the hotel is well known and they pointed me in the right direction. I did not understand everything they said, but understood roughly.

3) I asked for Colgate Total toothpaste in a pharmacy and was understood.