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On 15 September, the song was uploaded to YouTube, [6] and it quickly became an internet meme related to Slavs. Most prominently, the meme was circulated on the image macro site YTMND, accompanied by the song's chorus or variations of it. The song was also played at the opening at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow, Russia for Semi-Final 2.
Blatnaya pesnya (Russian: блатная песня, IPA: [blɐtˈnajə ˈpʲesʲnʲə], "criminals' song") or blatnyak (Russian: блатняк, IPA: [blɐtʲˈnʲak]) is a genre of Russian song characterized by depictions of criminal subculture and the urban underworld which are often romanticized and have criminally-perverted humor in nature.
[15] [16] Broadcasting was from 8:00 to 00:00 Moscow time, with the TV channel TCM Europe being broadcast at overnight hours. The distributor of the channel in the CIS and the Baltic States was Chello Zone. [17] [18] [19] On 1 April 2005, the pan-European Cartoon Network received a full-fledged Russian audio track. [20] [21]
Muz-TV (Russian: Муз-ТВ, from Музыкальное телевидение - Music Television) is a Russian music TV channel, broadcasting since 1996. It is largely modelled after western MTV and predates launching of MTV Russia in 1998. Muz-TV was founded by Sergey Lisovskiy.
This music is closely tied in with village life and traditions. It was usually not performed by professional musicians. From the Central Committee's resolution of 1932, [4] which prescribed musical literacy (in parallel to the drive to industrialise the Soviet Union), there has been a marked decline in authentic folk performance practice.
Butyrka (Russian: Бутырка) is a Russian music group, working in the genre Blatnaya pesnya. It is considered one of the most popular bands in the style of Russian chanson . [ 1 ] The band leads an active concert life both in Russia and abroad.
Lyube [1] (Russian: Любэ́, IPA:) is a Russian rock band from Lyubertsy, a city in Moscow Oblast. Lyube's music is a mixture of several genres, with influences from both Russian folk music, rock, Russian chanson, and Soviet military songs. The band was founded in 1989, and since then have released sixteen albums.
DDT (or ДДТ in Cyrillic) is a Russian rock band. It was founded in 1980 by its lead singer and only remaining original member, Yuri Shevchuk (Russian: Юрий Шевчук), in Ufa (Bashkir ASSR, Russia, USSR).