While I am fluent in the Russian language, this situation left me scrathing my head.  A few years back, I picked up my car at the port of St. Petersburg and planned the next day to drive back to Moscow.  I started off the next morning and about 30 minutes outside of St. Petersburg the previous night's pelmeni started to create some serious rumblings in my digestive tract. Over the course of the next 30 miles I stopped at 5 cafes and truck stops looking to find some half-way hygenic facilities with running water but each time found only the ubiquitous 'outhouse'.  After avoiding the inevitable challenge to my senses for nearly an hour, I finally stopped at a cafe where the sign in front said in Russian, "Toilet in Back."  I walked onto a muddy path going in to the back and about 15 meters behind the cafe there stood the little wooden hut surrounding a hole in the ground just like every place else I stopped.  I gave in and approached the 'outhouse' only to find a sign on the door on which was written in Russian, "Ne Rabotayet" (in English, 'not working'). Not surprised to see a "Ne Rabotayet" sign in Russia, I automatically turned around and took a few steps back along the path before stopping and asked myself outloud, "It's an outhouse, what can't be working?"  I looked back at the outhouse and shook my head thinking, "Well I don't want to find out."