Dear friends,
Following my recent post Россия не Европа (Russia is not Europe) – an example through Music a reader emailed me the link to a recent Russian Folk Festival featuring artists from various regions of Russia which, in my opinion, further illustrate the fact that Russia is not Europe or, more accurately, that “non-Russian Russians” are also not Europeans. See for yourself and enjoy the great music!
The Saker
Well, this might not be to the point Saker is making, but it is beautiful nonetheless – an interview with an Ukranian pianist denied the ability to perform in Canada because of her political views, nothing to do with her craft – I found her words inspiring. I am sure her playing is even more so.
http://rt.com/news/247677-lisitsa-interview-ukraine-canada/
what are her political views ?
The following was already contained in the above linked article:
@ValLisitsa I’m born and raised in Canada and cannot beleive my country has sided with FASCISM! I am DEEPLY sorry.
12:32 AM – 7 Apr 2015
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Ann, at least here is what the AngloZionist MSM says that she said, http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/tso-drops-ukrainian-pianist-valentina-lisitsa-over-offensive-comments-1.3022999 :
“… In her post, Lisitsa said she has been speaking out against the “atrocities” of the civil war, particularly those committed against the Russian minority in Ukraine’s eastern and southern regions.
She said she has been “watching helplessly” as her country slides “ever faster into the abyss” and had taken to Twitter “to get the other side of the story heard.” …”
(BTW, note the sarcastic quotation marks inserted around the key words and phrases by “The Canadian Press”…)
http://www.MontenegroDanceFestival.com
Calls to boycott TSO gaining momentum..
Do you perhaps have a link to the TSO boycott? (The one you posted doesn’t seem to mention it.)
https://www.facebook.com/torontosymphonyorchestra
I can’t say I’m a fan of pop-ified traditional music (like Pelageya’s song in the above clip). It waters down the original essence of the traditional music without adding something authentic-sounding.
Nonetheless, I don’t disagree with the basic message that Russia is not Europe. One just needs to look at the map to figure this out, for goodness’ sake.
BTW, for completely non-European Russian music, I recommend Huun Huur Tu, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGaTLs-GsFw
It would put it this way: Europe is not Europe. But an occupied continent.
Occupied by monotheism, capitalism, fascism, zionism, neo-liberalism, bolshevism, scientism, feminism, political-correctism and a whole plethora of other -isms.
Where are the Celts and their Druids and Bards? Where are the Franks, the Gaels, the Vikings, the Teutons? Our wise and brave forefathers?
Seems the ArchDruid fetched up here:
http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2015/04/atlantis-wont-sink-experts-agree.html?m=1
“Nonetheless, I don’t disagree with the basic message that Russia is not Europe. One just needs to look at the map to figure this out, for goodness’ sake.”
The traditional definition of Europe taught at school in the sixties was “from the Atlantic to the Ural mountains”.
Discussion of boundaries Europe here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe
Map Europe:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundaries_between_continents#/media/File:Continents_vide_couleurs.png
Same conclusion: Atlantic-Ural.
Other definition is: everything is Europe where you can find roman-classicist architecture, notably in government buildings. According to that definition, Irkutsk could be classified as European:
http://siberiantimes.com/PICTURES/CITY-FOCUS/IRKUTSK/inside%20White%20house%20Irkutsk.jpg
Most of the territory is Asian, but most of the people are European. 80% or so of the people of the RF are Russian, that is a Slavic people, just like Poles, Ukrainians, Belo-Russians, Czechs, Serbs.
But hey, don’t listen to a Dutchman, listen to the Russians themselves. Russia is member of the council of Europe, of the European soccer competition and a host of other sports-organizations and even of the hated Eurovision song-festival (hated here). Russia is part of most if not all European organisations. And nobody forced them to it, it was all voluntarily.
What organizational cross-over does exist between Russia and China, part from the very recent BRICS and SCO, all a consequence of the insane US imperial behavior?
I vaguely remember that TheSaker is from a family of Russian refugees. I assume that they fled from communism. Fled where to? To Europe, where else!
It is important not to let color judgments too much by short term events, like regime change in Kiev. We had one in 2004 and it was reversed. Could happen again.
Kind regards,
Dutch
Russia doesn’t wnt to have anything with Europe.
Russia is paying 35 million euros (she is 3rd or 4th biggest contributor to that bureaucratic assembly even though she is not part of EU!) every year for PACE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_Assembly_of_the_Council_of_Europe) to be exploited and victimized. In March of 2014 eurocrats in European Council canceled Russian right to vote in that assembly. Can.Can you imagine it? Canceling someone who pays for something to vote. Russia shouldn’t even be there, let alone pay for it. Keep that Europe for yourself, Russia doesn’t need it or want it.
As for geography and all that, most of Russia is in Asia, not Europe, which makes her more Asian country than European. Look.
Asia:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Asia_stub.png
Russia:
https://depts.washington.edu/fasdpn/images/russia.jpg
And if that is not enough, Russians themselves have spoken: they don’t want to have anything other than good relations with her trading partner Europe. She only seeks and desires relationship based on mutual respect and benefit based on common interests with Europe. You should respect that. Russia is mostly Asian.
All Europeans and Asians who want to become Russian can. Russian is not an ethnicity. It represent a set of many Asian and European tribes and people: Finns, Slavs, Samoyeds, Khazars, Bulgars, Mongols, Pechenegs, Cumans, Nords who came in 9th and 10th century and numerous indigenous Asian tribes like Nanai, Udege, Oroch etc.
Here is Europan part of the Russian population.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordvins#/media/File:Muromian-map.png
Rus people and state created Vikings. Founder of Rus nation was Viking war-chief Rurik. His dynasty, Rurikids, ruled Russia from 9th century to 1698. Thought that might interest you.
But let us focus on building Europe and European North America. We don’t need Russia or Russians. There are plenty of us Europeans. Let us not forget: we are the most powerful force on Earth. Nobody has contributed more to human prosperity through science and culture than us. Imagine what we can do if we truly unite and not through this Anglo-Americano-Zionist platform through some of their “unions.” They won’t rule us.We are perfectly capable of building a world for ourselves. You should enable commenting on your site, there could be plenty of contributions to your noble idea you know. Thoughts could be a little refined. Ideas enchanted. Etc. Strength and honor, shield brother. :)
This is why west wants to destroy Russia.So many different ethnic groups and yet all held together with language and sense of belonging.
Even though I was born in former Jugoslavia,Hrvatska to be precise watching this video made me feel russian too.I cried to the sounds of balalaika.
This is what west has destroyed when they bombed Jugoslavia.They destroyed our identity.I still think of my self as a Jugoslav even though I am born in in Hrvatska.I have no identity with hrvatska.
This is what the parasite wants.Destroy ones identity and than turn them into drones.
That is what west has become today.
I wish I was younger,would move to Crimea in a heart beet.
Jugoslav.
Parasitoids: Jewel Wasps at work …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN2XMyxAs5o
One can perhaps see the metaphor in relation to today’s situation of concern: Zionist Israel and Washington DC foreign policy and the US and its subservient vassal states. Remove the ‘identity’ and breed ….
Zombie banks, zombie states, zombie economies, zombie people, …
Aim the injection into the ‘culture’ and then the political ‘brain’ and then feed n’ breed …
Me too brother
Brate, ja takoder mislim tako.
There are many of us.
Pozdrav.
“If you cannot feed yourself you cannot be independent” — Yahya Jammeh, president of Gambia talks about rice plan
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“The West has only been ungrateful. Abject poverty drove Europeans to Africa. And they exploited Her for four hundred years. In those years there has never been any elections. They were no parliamentary systems. After four hundred years of looting Africa, some of us had to take up arms to kick them out. Now they have come around to give us lectures about democracy and human rights. When in their own countries there’s no democracy. Where’s the democracy for Blacks in the UK or Blacks anywhere in Europe? The so-called skin heads or neo-Nazi or the Far right, if they were in Africa or in the Gulf States they would be called terrorist organizations. Why are they not being called terrorist organization and being dealt with?…They are all anti-human. They hate humanity. But why are they not called terrorists and being bombed…like the Islamic extremists? The KKK in the United States are called Far Right or white supremacist. White supremacist against who? I am not anti-West. I am anti their hypocrisy and their racism…The British never built a high school in this country in four hundred years…Democracy is respecting the will of the people…Who do they think they are that they have to teach Africans democracy when we’ve never colonized anybody? The Western democracy is a fallacy. It doesn’t exists.”–Yahya Jammeh, president of Gambia
So very true……
Good comment…..Brings to mind Bunny Wailers song “Rise and Shine.”I keep it bookmarked so to get inspiration when I’m feeling low.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9NdmNbqBZI
Saker,
Thank you so much for this music.I was literally in tears for half the show.
Yes, whites had exploited Africa for a hunderd years, whereas blacks are exploiting white men’s lands for the last 400 years. How many blacks are in white men’s lands? Over 50 million. And how many whites are in Africa? Around 5 million, right? Over 10 times more. If those exploitative Africans get back to their home in Africa, there wouldn’t be any “racism.” We are currently short on reciprocity scale for about 45 million on your African advantage (not that we Europeans would have anything against exchanging an entire population – you get us back our Europeans, and you get back your black people – so there wouldn’t be need for reciprocity principle). There has to be balance. 59% of all crimes the US are done by Africans, and Africans make only 13-14% of US population. 3/4 of all employed Africans get their jobs working for government. Vast majority of Africans are unemployed. They have no skills, no education. They don’t want to work. They are lazy, parasitic people. So you can see how European lands are suffering because of African plight. We Europeans have enough on their plate with the plague called liberaism and its effects on mental health, morality and values of our weakest, we don’t need problems of others in addition. Our house is not yours. Don’t go where you are not wanted or welcomed, and there won’t be any problems. Very simple.
[This comment is posted specifically to illustrate & highlight what a racist statement is, and if you want to find out the real history of European exploitation of Africa that is still going on today, read Walter Rodney’s book “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa” ~ Moderator-D.C.]
That’s why your are going to go to African state in North America, moderator DC. And there is no European exploatation of Africa today, but there is US exploatation of an entire world today. Via dollar reserve currency system we all transfer aprt of our ourchuasing power to America, to Ameicans. Those poor Japanese and Chinese are being exploited massively. They have bought over 7 trillion between them, of US treasuries which are going to be worthless in few years time, but lo and behold you don’t see Japanese and Chinese creaming how they are being exploited. Japanese Central Bank even on this very day is buying American debt, because Japan is a colony of the West. They are going to lose all o their investment, and they know it, but you don’t see them yelling,”We are exploited, give us a free lunch!” like hose Africans do. We Europeans are being exploited by America too for we too transfer part of our purchasing power to America, although nowhere near a scale Japan and China do, but we don’t scream “Exploitation” do we? Quit being so dramatic, moderator. History of Earth has been history of exploitation. Everyone exploits everyone. Even on a micro scale between human participants this is true: Those having knowledge of something regularly exploit those who do not. It is the way of the world. So you better start amassing knowledge so you don’t get exploited, but don’t cry and foam when you become an exploited party in a deal — every deal has its winners and losers. I have no doubt that if Africans had been advanced enough to be able to exploit others, they would have had.
Unworthy Victims
Western Wars Have Killed Four Million Muslims Since 1990
What does it mean to be an European?
What does it mean to be an European?
It means one doesn’t have to lug about as much bulk as an American
I thought it means; to lie, to steal…Hitler, Nazi-NATO, vassal status, American stooges, Drang nach Osten…
Really enjoyed the music – thanks. And OK, I understand Russia is not Europe – but then Russia is neither China, I believe.
I am much struggling to understand what do you mean by ‘Europe’ – the European Union? The EU elite or it’s inhabitants? Sorry, I really cannot understand what’s this all about, why this – I can’t help but see Russia MUCH more European than Chinese, having known very well people from both nationalities. Of course, I truly appreciate the music and most posts on this site, which is the reason I keep revisiting. Peace
Simply more and more people are afraid to speak their views for the fear of loosing their job etc.
We should be thankful to Valentina Lisitsa for defending for us basic human rights.
In so good democratic country I did not hear a Canadian politicians standing on the guard of democracy defending our basic rights.
It had to be done by foreign pianist.
Or Canadian democracy is a joke or just Canadian politicians from all three main political parties.
Russia is aligned East. Europe is the butt end of Russia.
April 06, 2015 “ICH” – “Asia Times” – A high-level European diplomatic source has confirmed to Asia Times that German chancellor Angela Merkel’s government has vigorously approached Beijing in an effort to disrupt its multi-front strategic partnership with Russia.
There can now be no doubt that this Nazi b is part of the problem and she was instrumental in fomenting all the problems in Ukraine!
China will take Germany’s lunch and spank the Frau.
Germany is a vassal, not even a colony with some dignity.
Raped after the war and still putting out for Master.
All the while paying reparations to the Zionists.
You can pretend you are something, but the stark light of day proves you are a pretender.
So now that is revealed.Just how mad do the Germans think Russia is going to be at them trying to stab them in the back “again”.When will Russia finally see that the Germans are no different than the other Russophobes.They should tell Merkle since she can’t make the May 9th Commemoration that Putin can’t spare any time on May 10th to receive her.He has to wash his hair,or there is a good TV show he wants to see.But either way he is too busy May 10th to spare a moment for her.
No. He can’t give ‘washing his hair’ as a reason – he’d be finished in five minutes..
Better he washes his hands entirely of the lumpen Frau(d).
Asia Times is fast becoming the Tel Aviv Times, imo. I don’t like the ad’s (want a girl in Asia?); I don’t find the new format appealing (massive permanent banner & story headlines which skip/scroll too fast); and stories now (with one or two exceptions) slant towards msm …. I’ll be deleting it off my web browsing routines. I hope Pepe E. publishes his posts elsewhere: no I don’t want an Asian girlfriend!; no I don’t want to read Norman A. Bailey!; and no I don’t think David P. Goldman is anything less than a Zionist Israeli at work.
Agree about the Asian Times. Definite change in tone. It reminds me a lot of The Economist.
Would be interested to know if it’s shareholder composition has changed, or it’s editorial board.
It’s exactly the kind of acquisition Soros or Murdoch would look for..
“A high-level European diplomatic source has confirmed to Asia Times that German chancellor Angela Merkel’s government has vigorously approached Beijing in an effort to disrupt its multi-front strategic partnership with Russia.”
Perhaps it would be more salient to ask why the leak?
“April 06, 2015 “ICH” – “Asia Times” – A high-level European diplomatic source has confirmed to Asia Times that German chancellor Angela Merkel’s government has vigorously approached Beijing in an effort to disrupt its multi-front strategic partnership with Russia.”
Do you have any link to back up that claim?
this search gives no clue:
http://atimes.com/?s=merkel&searchsubmit.x=0&searchsubmit.y=0
I found it:
http://atimes.com/2015/04/eurasian-emporium-or-nuclear-war-pepe-escobar/
No reference to a source, but if true, it would only confirm the already very low opinion I have of her, unlike her pro-Russian predecessors, since Willy Brandt:
https://deepresource.wordpress.com/2015/04/06/viktor-suvorov-the-last-myth-%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B9-m%D0%B8%D1%84/
Kind regards,
Dutch
About the Russian soul, the fighting spirit, the essence of why Russia cannot be defeated.
http://fortruss.blogspot.com/2015/04/why-russians-cannot-be-defeated.html
Thanks for the link Larchmonter445.
After years of blaming Russia ,accusing Putin of murdering the Polish President in 2010.Now a Polish media source has got a hold of the cockpit tapes.And it shows just as Russia said the plane crashed because the pilots tried to land in too bad of weather.And the tapes show they were pressed to by the Poles themselves.That Russophobe Warsaw bunch are as despicable a regime as there is in Europe.
http://rt.com/news/247665-kaczynski-crash-pilots-pressured/
al jazeera had a slot this morning in Uk, about 120 private groups, armed, military style, in Poland, ready to defend their homeland(note majority of Polish people feel Rus is a military threat), and governmemt is thinking of incorporating these somehow into the military, or more closely connected into the military,…and guess what the General is in constant contact with you know who -Ukraine-sounds familiar?
Loved this. Thanks for sharing.
If it’s as good as the last ones then I’m on it.
Yet, again, I must return the kindness.
Nahko Bear (Medicine for the People) ღ Aloha Ke Akua
After watching, I have to say, Thank You, for the Amazing cultural exchange.
I am grateful that I did not experience a light-induced epileptic seizure. ;->
It’s nice, but I like folk music sung by ‘folks’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9YVSIYdASw (especially starting at 2:30)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-erm578uuI&index=70&list=PL85DF60467BEBCC7B
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W41dnSqi0uI&index=83&list=PL85DF60467BEBCC7B
I also ran across some Bulgarian song, which I think is wonderful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuF3rcJVPT8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcUK2-8A31g
for instance. Highly skilled and beautiful, and yet simple, and very human, without frills, or even instruments.
Also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuF3rcJVPT8
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgr9ocBVA1Q
Yes, many ‘folk’ are very talented and skilled in both voice and instruments, of course, but I think the sound of these last three videos is fantastic and full of soul.
Blue,those songs you named as Bulgarian are actually Serbian songs in very easily understandable Serbian. One song is about Morava which is a river in a present day Serbia. Ribnica is the name of the group. There is Ribnica in Zlatibor region,again in Serbia. And there is also RIbnica in Podgorica,present day Montenegro. Father of our Sveti Sava was born there.
Sorry for the correction,it is quite easy to make that mistake if you are not from these regions. But i am glad that you liked them.
Have you ever asked yourself why the fragmention is known as balkanization? Balkan lies on the ex border of Ottoman Islam and Christianity. But before and after that it was a border between Catholicism and Orthodoxy. That fragmentation was a policy by the Vatikan. It was not only Ottomans that were converting people here,Vatikan was worse in that aspect. Bearing false gifts,destroying archives,rewriting history,encouraging and sometimes actively participating in the slaughter of people,subverting culture (which is their favorite and in which they are quite well versed-be warned, in this i think they are undisputed masters). List goes on but i will not continue as we stray from topic.
And that is why it is so complicated for those not from around here to understand the differences and also similarities. Especially the similarities which,when became evident,will bring peace and prosperity to all religions and ethnicities existing here.
Also i would agree with you in “folk music sung by folk”. Less we stray from our roots-the better. Pop-ization is a good way to popularize something but i am afraid that in pursuing that line we loose more than we can possibly gain. In Serbia we have this awfull pop-folk mesh that is a vessel for amorality and dumbing down called turbo folk. It started in the 90’s during the sanctions and now we are seeing it’s effects.
For more links check my post in part 1 of this post
“very easily understandable Serbian”
Eeasy for you to say! I know maybe a few dozen words of any other language than English, and being a product of the American school system (of 50 years ago), I know virtually nothing about anywhere but the the US and very little about Europe except what I’ve recently learned from the internet.
Not so much even about the US — mostly just a few dates and the standard myths which are taught in school. You would probably not believe how ignorant most Americans are (and they are kept that way quite deliberately by the ruling class, which is deathly afraid that if people were really educated they would refuse to go to war but hang the oligarchs from lamp posts).
People who go exploring what is available on the internet can find all sorts of things they never heard of before — Eastern Europe, African civilizations, the rest of the world, and are astounded — even by the size of it, not to speak of the complexity. I’ve spent decades just working on unlearning the garbage I was taught, and still have a ways to go.
They are now talking abut the ‘feudalization’ of the US, politically and economically, but Americans’ minds have been ‘feudalized’ long ago, as if we lived in a small isolated village. We talk about the propaganda and dysinformation, but the pervasiveness and depth, and the subtle toxicity, of it is difficult to fathom, and very few people here suspect how bad it actually is.
So I said Bulgarian because that’s what the youtube said, and it sounded like a record of Bulgarian folk songs I found, which i loved and everyone else hated. You can’t hear anything like this on MTV! There’s not even much western classical played on TV or the radio. Almost all only junk. It’s a cultural desert — the “vast wasteland”.
No hard feelings here Blue. So please do not take slight to my words.
Here in Serbia we are hurled by our totally corrupt and incompetent “elite” toward that same situation you just described. And you are not alone in the sentiment that that way is wrong.
I like the point you made about unlearning the garbage. Same here. Isolated villages. Same. Propaganda and disinformation, but the pervasiveness and depth, and the subtle toxicity, of it is difficult to fathom, and very few people here suspect how bad it actually is. Absolutely same.
Global “elite” with the same agenda. But i am glad to come here and meet individuals who see this. Sharing of information,views,ideas and all that in a respectful way.
So,be well Blue and continue the struggle!
No hard feelings at all. .
A thing to remember is that none of this folk music, or arts, were done to put on a show or get paid or become a ‘star’ and get on video or TV — it was all done and developed by people for themselves and their family and neighbors, or to celebrate life or one’s religion. It’s authentic human, and the best of it tends to be done in a local hall, house, or village square or field — not an elaborate stage or music hall, with everyone in the community being part of it in some way, and not as just a passive audience to ‘consume the show; and be entertained.
One can see the difference in attitudes with government now too where people are offered a ‘choice’ in voting and then get back to their lives while the designated ‘leaders’ make all the decisions and hand them down to the lowly people and tell them what to do. Authentic folk arts are essentially democratic — literally of, by, and for the people. This is, I think, a big reason it’s hard to find in western, capitalist culture now except in the ‘underclasses’, and what is developed is usually quickly commercialized and co-opted by the commercial interests and put on DVDs for sale, along with accessory products, like clothes, for sale. Folk art is not about making a profit!
“So I said Bulgarian because that’s what the youtube said”
But the information under the video says it is a Serbian group and you can use Google Translate to “cut and paste” that text and it will tell you. Google Translate even has “detect language” if you are unsure which it is.
But Serbia has A LOT of folk music, some of the folk music is on or near borders with Bulgaria, Macedonia, etc. and there’s always all sorts of arguments/trolls fighting over whose it is, but the group you like so much is in central Serbia.
Google Translate can even translate entire links/pages if you put them in the box and press “Translate”.
Often the translation is clumsy but you can usually get the gist.
Bolje bi ti bilo kad bi se okanio svog Veliko-Srpstva i dao svoj doprinos Rusiji, majci svih Slavena.
Svi smo mi nitko i nista bez Rusije.
Ali, tako je bilo uvijek, dok smo mi Hrvati davali podrsku Rusiji vi Srbi ste samo mislili kako stvoriti Veliku Srbiju pa ako je i uz pomoc Engleske jos bolje, ima veci legtimitet..
[MOD via google: You better if it has ceased its Many-Serbian nation and contributed to Russia, the mother of all Slavs.
We are all no one and nothing without Russia.
But so it was always, while we support the Croats gave Russia more Serbs are only meant to create a Greater Serbia and if with the help of England and even better, has greater legtimicy ..]
“And that is why it is so complicated for those not from around here to understand the differences and also similarities. Especially the similarities which,when became evident,will bring peace and prosperity to all religions and ethnicities existing here.”
I used to do -my ability was average level -Balkan folk dancing at a festival in Holland, Greek, Romanian, Albanian, Serbian, Hungarian,Bulgarian etc etc-there is really really amazing stuff, from simple folk songs and dances to more complicated set orchestral pieces of Bulgarian folk dance that you can see on youtube. Amazing.
Link to some of my favourites
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBAF298538E7AB9E1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgNVU3nFlyY&index=22&list=PLBAF298538E7AB9E1
this is one of my favourites-tha guy’s agility is incredible-why he slopes backwards and is pushed by the guys behind , is symoblising the foot plough used to plough spring soil for planting, turning over of the plough etc etc .
There is a huge interest in Germany, Holland over Balkan dance, music and dance can unite peoples………….transcends the boundaries.Lots folk dance festivals in Europe, trips to Macedonia, Albania, Romania etc.
Just reading Eckart Tolle—“a new earth”………..we are in so much danger of losing, destroying our sacred connections with earth and cosmos…………………..planting my vegetables in glorious spring weather at the moment………………
Check out this Serbian music too! The vocal at 240 is amazing.
Sorry — I lost the link to the Serbian music along the way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3WB31PKAO4
It’s not music but it is entertaining as long as you are OK with bad language:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/06/john-olivers-hilarious-interview-with-edward-snowden/
Nazi-Nato media are trolling about Russia
Could you believe this?
Still, in the insular world of Siberian oil work, outsiders are not yet quite embraced. When a native Russian reporter asked for a “sandwich” in the employees’ canteen, the woman working there was immediately suspicious.
“‘Sandwich’ is a foreign word,” she said. “Are you a spy?”
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/08/us-russia-rosneft-china-insight-idUSKBN0MZ0OG20150408
Russians and Scandinavians have several words in common. Torg (marketplace), feltsker (emergency doctor), matros (sailor), ja (jag, I), svinja (svin, pig), buk (boktree) and some more. “Feltsker” is probably a German loanword, but some other words are not. If you have ever heard a Russian pronounce the word “spion” (spy), you will understand it is loaded with distrust of foreigners. When I visited Russia a long time ago, I was met with the same attitude by some. Russians feel they have always been attacked from the West.
” Russians feel they have always been attacked from the West.”
Hmmm,what on earth would give them that foolish idea,”Teutonic Knights” cough,”Polish-Lithuanian Pans” cough,”Swedish Karl” cough,”Napoleonic Grand Armee” cough,”Kaiser Bill” cough,” Hitler and his Pan-European Crusade,complete with Hiwi Bandera helpers” cough,”Cold War warriors and their Harvard Boy’s economists” cough,”NATO bases” cough,”Yarosh and his pro-nazi Right Sector” cough.Gosh I can’t think of a reason why Russians would be so paranoid,can anyone else? It “must” be Putin’s fault again.
See for yourself and enjoy the great music!
I did and I am. Thanks for posting this.
hey, was it not Vladimir Kuntzev in the audience that was recording the show ?
he is the leader of Kaz-Krug and I like their music
Russia is not Europe: In Russia, historical memory is precious and necessary and true.
http://russia-insider.com/en/remember-them-powerfull-russian-song-and-video-about-great-patriotic-war/5404
Russian music? Even Frank Sinatra like it: Фрэнк Синатра поет на русском.
The best hour and fourteen minutes I’ve spent in a long, long, time.
Thank you very much…
Hello from Belgium,
yes but no… : what is Russia, what is Europe ?
if Moscow is the third Rome, then yes Russia is essentially european – if you live in Vladivostok, you think different, but Moscow is closer to me than you to Moscow…
we are similar AND different, just like me (aryan green-eyed man) and an iberic guy (Portugal or Spain) , Lenin had a father Tatar, right ? his eyes were somehow asiatic : no problem…
and yet we share a common past : christianism, monarchy, renaissance (your great Catherine II), industrial revolution, french revolution, socialism…
Vladimir Poutine want(ed) to get closer to Europe : why if he didn’t think Russia is (mainly) european ?
great music, beautiful woman and strong men : I adore it
AND Rachmaninoff too (who was not asiatic, right ?)
I woukd conclude that Russia is truly well located fot the next century to monitor eurasism, being the link between western Europe and big Asia
Geoffrey – a communist from belgium (may you like it or not..)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBVY7Glcd84
Polina Gagarina will represent Russia at the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna with the song A Million Voices.
Director of the video: Alexey Golubev
Camera: Sergey Dyshuk
Very European and will probably, as usual, score high.
(I could vote for Malta this time, but that still could change)
Kind regards,
Dutch
The Russian song is very Disney-ish, and that’s common for the song they send to both junior and senior Eurovision, according to Eurovision-fans.
The Bur(y)at song was amazing! This is the best music you ever posted, Saker!
Why have you allowed that comment which defended Russia and not a couple others of mine, hm, mod? Do you want me to become enemy of Russia in the future perhaps? Don’t play anyone for fool, homo libtardus. You will find that results will not be to your liking.
During my time moderation I’ve only stopped approving one of your comments because of its content was clearly breaching the moderation policy of this blog. Now that you have “cleaned” your comment, you can see, has been approved and published. Read the rules of the blog, and please, do not threaten me. I would advise you to decide who your friends / enemies based on more than just my style of moderation.
Awesome! Loved it!
De acuerdo contigo Halcón, hermoso video, cuiden su identidad nacional: es un tesoro..:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s8W8B7NZqM
I love her voice – it is the soul of my Russia. Sorry for my English.. )
Most people in Russia are Russians, about 80% live in European part of Russia.
But there are a lot of small nationalities who live in Russia and have their specific culture. We find them interesting and respect them, they make us rich and give more preferences to our big country.