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Chastushka (Russian: частушка, IPA: [tɕɪsˈtuʂkə], plural: chastushki) is a traditional type of short Russian humorous folk song with high beat frequency, that consists of one four-lined couplet, full of humor, satire or irony.
On 31 December 2011, Khil performed the Trololo song again live on a 2012 New Year's Russian holiday television special. Within the first week of January 2012, the new video of Khil performing his new version of the Trololo song had gone viral on YouTube again, earning over four million hits. [39] Khil died later that year.
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.
The song, written during the first term of Russian president Vladimir Putin (2000–2004), sarcastically idealises Putin; [1] [2] however, contrary to the song's satirical intentions, the song was officially used by Putin's 2004 re-election campaign, [3] and the satirical undertones were largely unnoticed and ignored by the Russian populace. [2 ...
One of the names in the song is "Dukelsky"; this is actually the birth name of Vernon Duke, an American composer. Similarly, Stanisław Moniuszko, Witold Maliszewski and Leopold Godowsky are ethnic Poles. All four of these men were, however, born within the Russian empire.
Serduchka, however, had the full support of the NTU, and the participation in the contest in Helsinki went ahead as planned. At the Embrace Ukraine fundraiser, following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Serduchka performed the song with the lyrics "I want to say Russia goodbye" and changed the song's title to "Dancing Russia Goodbye". [12 ...
Russian jokes (Russian: анекдоты, romanized: anekdoty, lit. ' anecdotes ') are short fictional stories or dialogs with a punch line , which commonly appear in Russian humor . Russian joke culture includes a series of categories with fixed settings and characters.