Comments on: Russia Blog roundup – 21 May (the Eurovision special)

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 25 May 2009 18:00:03 +0000

Sorry David – fixed now.

I’ll take care to read more carefully in future

By: David McDuff

David McDuff — Fri, 22 May 2009 07:11:12 +0000

>>Step at a Time reports on the 200,000 rouble fine given to journalist Zoya Svetova <<

Please read the ASAAT post more carefully. As it states:

“In Yezhednevnyi zhurnal, Zoya Svetova writes that the Russian journalist Yelena Maglevannaya (photo) has been fined 200,000 roubles (6,238 USD)”.

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By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 22 May 2009 05:59:34 +0000

Thanks, I’ll now be humming the Gazprom Song all the way to work!

By: Sublime Oblivion

Sublime Oblivion — Fri, 22 May 2009 03:19:40 +0000

You have a great taste for satire, Andy.

Though the gas song was indeed excellent, made me want to turn off the pipelines just for the sake of it. It could have been better, though, an obvious improvements would have been to add more lyrics generously offering to replace the gas with uranium “supplies”.

The Swedish one was flawless – Russia folk songs and Soviet-patriotic music fused into popsovyi kitsch. True art; an exemplar par excellence of modern civilization pushing the very boundaries of artistic possibility.

I also recommend the Gazprom song.

“In Russia there’s no-one and never will be anyone more trustworthy than Gazprom!”

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