I'm not sure if this is true, but I heard somewhere that Russian is the second most difficult language, after Chinese.

No, Russian isn't even in the top ten most difficult languages. We covered this topic in English class in 10th grade... Besides Chinese, the languages of the Eskimos and Native Americans are considered very difficult, as well as some language called Pijijanjara (I don't know how to pronounce that monstrosity in Russian :D, it might sound exactly the same).

Witch, I don't remember him. Can you describe him in more detail? Or post a couple of pictures of him?