2013
UN experts said that people should eat more insects. Could we get used to that, especially, if it became fashionable? Here’s how Sergei Yolkin sees it.
14 May 2013
RIA-Novosti
2013
Since a shower head looks vaguely like an old Sov public radio loudspeaker, Yolkin has it broadcasting a “message”. In fact, all the old Sov news bulletins of the ‘30s and ‘40s started with Yuri Levitan intoning, “внимание” (vnimanie: attention)… often, followed by “говорит Москва” (govorit Moskva: Moscow calling). Every year, the local authorities turn off the urban central hot water plant for about a week to maintain the system. It could be as short as three days… it could be as long as two weeks… you’re looking for precision? Hey, “Russians aren’t Germans”. Of course, they don’t publish it (you’re supposed to “know” that such things happen on a regular basis at about the same time every year)… you get the “announcement” the “hard way”… now, that’s getting your attention the Russian way…
Attention, attention! Sergei Yolkin wants you to know that they’re turning off the hot water in Moscow to do the traditional summer maintenance of the system!
13 May 2013
RIA-Novosti
Every year, there’s fireworks for Victory Day… and this year was no exception. Here are three images of the fireworks from Moscow…
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11 May 2013. A Picture IS Worth a Thousand Words… “The March of the Immortal Regiment” on Victory Day
Tags: Boris Yeltsin, Great Patriotic War, Holiday, holiday time, holidays, Holidays and Observances, patriotic, patriotic movement, patriotism, pilotka, political commentary, politics, Red Army, RKKA, Russia, Russian, Russian culture, Russian history, Russian holidays, Soviet Union, USSR, Victory Day, Vladimir Putin, VOV, Workers and Peasants Red Army, World War II, Yeltsin
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The above image shows young people carrying placards with the portraits of their grandparents who took part in the VOV. It’s called the “March of the Immortal Regiment, and it’s a new aspect of Victory Day… it’s become very popular, very fast. That’s because it’s not “glorifying war”… it’s rendering honour to one’s elders… that hasn’t gone out of style in Russia. Do note that many of the marchers are wearing Red Army pilotkas. Most of the sentiment for the restoration of the USSR in one form or another is found in the working class and peasantry, that is, amongst common people. VVP‘s responded to that… shall the noxious legacy of Yeltsin be undone in its entirety (let the oligarchs go to New York with their looted boodle… they’ll fit right in with the Rockefellers and Whitneys)? God willing it shall…
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