Posted on 10/05/2014 6:30:53 PM PDT by goldstategop
Russia's new state news agency has just received a huge injection of cash. Rossiya Segodnya - which means Russia Today - was created by Vladimir Putin less than a year ago to promote Russia around the world.
Its budget for next year is reportedly two-and-a-half times bigger than this year's - a sign of how important information is to the Kremlin.
I telephoned Rossiya Segodnya to request an interview. When they put me on hold, I was astonished by the music pumped down the line.
Now, what tune would you expect to hear, on hold to the news agency of an increasingly brash, self-confident Russia? The Russian army choir, perhaps? Or a lilting Russian folk melody, like Kalinka? Well, it was neither of those.
It was Frank Sinatra singing Anything Goes.
I sat there listening to Old Blue Eyes. And suddenly it dawned on me: this song encapsulates today's Russia. Because this is a country now where "anything goes".
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
How nice. A state-run propaganda outlet that plays Sinatra on hold. I’m feeling warm and fuzzy . . . .
I expected “My Way”, but this is more fitting.
I preferred “Moscow Nights” on the old Radio Moscow.
” And it isn’t complete without the beautiful Russian girl:”
She’s gonna get fat by the time she’s 40. You can see it in her face! Good fun now though!
As they say, before you marry a Russian girl, meet her mom.
Bags under her eyes, droopy bosom, and those teeth are going nowhere fast.
Maybe they should play the soundtrack from the original 1984 movie “Red Dawn.”
IIRC based on the way it is pronounced, this should be transliterated as Rossiya Sevodnya.
To me it's a universal rule of thumb, the nationality isn't important in this matter.
It’s too funny.
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