On the bright side, that squealing noise has stopped

There are several moments in Russian air transport I'd like personally to have witnessed, but right now I'd settle for the 30 seconds in the cockpit which immediately followed this conversation:

Kaliningrad air traffic control: "794...can you taxi independently to the apron?"

 

KD-Avia flight 794: "Yes, we can."

The transcript features on page 35 of this report into this Boeing 737 accident. There's an old pilots' joke about requiring full power to taxi to the gate if you land with the gear up, and if it didn't have a Russian equivalent before, I suspect it does now.