Quote Originally Posted by rockzmom

what is the book at 3:33? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbkT1TUcRIk
Note to anyone who might want to make subtitles... please include these little types of details!
The book is "Криминалистика"="Criminalistics ". I'm agree with birubirFilms that it's not important.

Quote Originally Posted by rockzmom

Also, I know I have asked questions before about the habit of cigarette smokers when I was watching "Seventeen Moments of Spring"... I see that detective Gleb Zheglov (who I am really liking BTW) has a habit of blowing into the ends of his cigarettes. Why does he do this?
Gleb was smoking papirosa (cigarette with a cardboard holder). Tobacco crumbs can get to a smoker's mouth. To avoid that smokers blow or knock them out and deform cardboard holder

Quote Originally Posted by rockzmom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6WIkIkMlZc start watching at 5:08 and then he takes out another cigarette and does it again. He has a habit of this throughout the episode so far that I have watched. And once again, as I have never smoked, I don't understand why one would do this.
He was so distressed, angry, irritated that he just blown tobacco off from his cigarette. You can see it at 5:28