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"Party for Everybody" was the Russian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 sung by Buranovskiye Babushki (The Grannies from Buranovo). The song won Russia's national song selection, which took place on 7 March 2012 in Moscow. At the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 held in Baku, Azerbaijan, the song finished in second place with 259 points.
The "State Anthem of the Russian Federation" [a] is the national anthem of Russia.It uses the same melody as the "State Anthem of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics", composed by Alexander Alexandrov, and new lyrics by Sergey Mikhalkov, who had collaborated with Gabriel El-Registan on the original anthem. [3]
The Cyrillic alphabet and Russian spelling generally employ fewer diacritics than those used in other European languages written with the Latin alphabet. The only diacritic, in the proper sense, is the acute accent ́ (Russian: знак ударения 'mark of stress'), which marks stress on a vowel, as it is done in Spanish and Greek.
Uncle Vova, we are with you! (Russian: Дядя Вова, мы с тобой!) is a Russian jingoistic song written to be performed by young children authored (both lyrics and music) by self-taught musician Vyacheslav Antonov [].
"The Patriotic Song" [a] was the national anthem of Russia from 1991 to 2000. It was previously the regional anthem of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1990 until 1991 (until 1990 it used the State Anthem of the Soviet Union), when it transformed into the Russian Federation after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Alexander Nikolaevich Buinov (Russian: Александр Николаевич Буйнов, born 24 March 1950 [1]) is a Russian singer, songwriter and keyboardist.He is best known for his tenure with Vesyolye Rebyata between 1973 and 1989, before starting his solo career.
An instrumental variant of the song was featured in the 2008 Moscow Victory Day Parade, celebrating the triumph of Russia over Nazi Germany. [3] In each parade, the song has been played during the infantry column precession. [4] "To Serve Russia" has performed by the Alexandrov Ensemble (commonly referred to as the Red Army Choir). [5] [6]
The album is also known as Back in the USSR and the Russian Album. [7] The first word of the album's title is often mispronounced by English speakers as / ˈ tʃ oʊ b ə / rather than the more accurate / ˈ s n oʊ v ə / (the Cyrillic alphabet has a different pronunciation for the characters "С", "H", and "В" than the Latin alphabet).