Snegurochka
Posted on 12/14/2013 7:25:45 PM PST by cunning_fish
DUSHANBE, December 11, 2013, Asia-Plus – The first deputy head of the Committee for TV and Radio-broadcasting under the Government of Tajikistan, Saidali Siddiqov, has confirmed information about banning Farther Frost from New Year’s broadcasts in Tajikistan.
“Father Frost, his maiden sidekick Snegurochka (Maiden Snow), and New Year’s tree will not appear on the state television this year, because these personages and attributes bear no direct relation to our national traditions, though there is no harm in them” Siddiqov told Asia-Plus in an interview on December 11.
According to him, there was no any order on that point from above. “The state TV channels have made such a decision themselves and the Committee for TV and Radio-broadcasting has just approved it,” Tajik official said.
He further added that all Tajik television channels would broadcast New Year’s programs.
We will recall that the “Tajikistan Joins War on Santa” item by David Trilling, which was posted on Eurasianet’s website on December 6, says that authorities in Tajikistan are forbidding Father Frost from appearing on television this holiday season. According to Eurasianet, Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service reported on December 5 that the ban applies to state television.
Meanwhile, Dushanbe Mayor Mahmadsaid Ubaiduloyev on December 9 signed a decree on organizing festive activities in the city to celebrate New Year’s Eve. A 22-meter New Year’s tree is expected to be installed in Dousti Square on December 28.
The New Year’s holiday, which is entirely secular holiday, remains one of the most popular holidays throughout the former Soviet Union, celebrated with family meals and fireworks.
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Tajikistan (Listeni/tɑːˈdʒiːkɨstɑːn/, /təˈdʒiːkɨstæn/, or /tæˈdʒiːkiːstæn/; Тоҷикистон [tɔd͡ʒikɪsˈtɔn]), officially the Republic of Tajikistan (Tajik: Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Çumhuriyi Toçikiston/Chumhuriyi Tochikiston; Russian: Республика Таджикистан, Respublika Tadzhikistan), is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia.
It borders Afghanistan to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan and Gilgit-Baltistan in Kashmir are separated from Tajikistan by the narrow Wakhan Corridor.
Most of Tajikistan's population belongs to the Persian-speaking Tajik ethnic group, who share language, culture and history with Afghanistan and Iran. Once part of the Samanid Empire, Tajikistan became a constituent republic of the Soviet Union in the 20th century, known as the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic (Tajik SSR).
Mountains cover more than 90% of the republic. After independence, Tajikistan suffered from a devastating civil war which lasted from 1992 to 1997. Since the end of the war, newly established political stability and foreign aid have allowed the country's economy to grow. Trade in commodities such as cotton, aluminium and uranium has contributed greatly to this steady improvement.
Snegurochka
When they get older and start to sag and bag, things aren't so cutesy. Even your blondie will get old, saggy and baggy.
Her blond hair will turn gray and stringy.
Her tight young muscles will turn flabby.
Her lovely long legs will get varicose veins.
Her beautiful skin will wrinkle, shrivel and sag.
Her lovely eyes will have bags underneath them.
Her tight butt will sag and be lumpy.
Her tight thighs will flap.
Hahaha, happens to all of us. But go ahead and wax poetic on her, while she is still worth waxing poetic about.
In its place, they will be showing MSNBC reruns of Chris Matthews getting a thrill up his leg and Obama bowing.
Sad for those little kids who grew up there. No matter where they come from. I’m always amazed by those who can actually make them selves hate Christmas.
Discovered Wikipedia did ya?
“That blondie could come from ANYwhere in the West. She looks like any pretty young woman. Almost ALL young women (and men) are good looking, MOSTLY because they are young.”
Never traveled over there I see.
And with your deep observations about natural aging, you forgot to describe souls, kindness, and a family ethos that is totally ridiculed by the western women you worship. And that young woman does another thing that western women scoff at. She enjoys her femininity and places her family above all in her personal hierarchy.
Not everything over there is bad.
Tadjikistan has one of the world’s highest mountains, but its name keeps getting changed. The Soviets named it Stalin Peak, and when Stalin fell out of power, they called it Communism Peak. After the Wall fell, the Tadjiks renamed it Ismail Somoni Peak, after a medieval king.
Huh? Not sure what you are whining about. Just what *are* you whining about?
What happened to Jack?
I was on this site YEARS ago but stopped coming here for a number of reasons.
I recently restarted here. Back then there was no Wikipedia but there were other sources on the Internet.
However, I have used Wikipedia over the years for other things, so it wasn't new to me generally. I quoted Wikipedia because people like to know from whence I get my quotes and such.
I "discovered" most Internet stuff years ago. There's hardly anything new to me now. My husband started on the computer in 1980 when we were overseas in the middle east.
Things have come a long way since then. People, though, haven't changed ONE iota.
The round trips were THOUSANDS of dollars for each of us. The one-way and continue on to the USA were even more expensive. Thus, I missed those two places...and Antarctica. Sometimes things were just too expensive. And, even though we could have afforded to visit there, we just didn't like how much the trip was OVER-charged. It just didn't seem fair.
The rest of the world, I did see. We were living and working in the middle east and made more money than I could have ever imagined. So, among other things, we traveled. We even went to China when it FIRST opened up for tourists.
So, you see, I have traveled "over there" and back again, often.
Also, my husband had one of the very first video cameras--1980. He had bought it overseas and it was, therefore, very expensive. The camera weighed 20 pounds and the battery, which he put in a backpack, also weighed 20 pounds. He loved all that stuff. We had the videos converted to CDs later. He had the equipment, of course, to convert.
So, you see, we not only traveled almost everywhere, we had it on video camera, converted now to CDs.
You ASSUME that western women scoff at "souls, kindness and a family ethos.' You ASSUME that western women DON'T enjoy their femininity and that they DON'T place their family above all in their personal hierarchy. How dare YOU ASSUME that of "western women." Perhaps that's true of the western women YOU know, but it's not true of all of them. If that's true for you, then you have my sympathy.
Besides, MY husband did think of souls, was TREMENDOUSLY kind and DID think of family ethos. He was one of the most ETHICAL people I had ever met. My sister introduced me to him, as they worked together, and I KNEW that if SHE chose him for me, he was absolutely solid gold. He was.
Also, if you read ANY history, you KNOW that women FROM EVERY CULTURE, country and national group have been fighting the aging process for EONS. There have ALWAYS been anti-aging secrets for women. Cleopatra had several little tricks of her own.
Plastic surgery has been booming ALL OVER THE WORLD for a long time and it's NOT just been a tool for "western women." Sounds to me like YOU have the grudge against us western women. We aren't much different from women all over the world, throughout all time.
I remember how many Asian women, for a while, had plastic surgery to "westernize" their eyes. Stupid, of course, but THEY didn't feel pretty compared to western women. Who do you think taught them that? THEIR OWN WOMEN taught them that. It was foolish, of course, but it happened.
Plastic surgeons have been operating on women's eyes, noses, ears, breast, butts, whatever, FOR AGES...women from EVERY culture and country have been dissatisfied with their looks. Perhaps that is part of women's nature. I don't know. But for YOU to disparage western women for doing what ALL WOMEN do, if they have the money, makes NO SENSE at all.
Maybe it's time for you to come out of the desert heat and cool off in the light of reality.
One line from the movies: women can never be to thin or too rich. Hah, that was written by the MALE script writers.
Well, in the next 10,000 years I'm sure it will change names again...and again and again.
I AM assuming, of course, that we humans will be around then.
Why do you care?
Why butt in other than to be snide?
WHY would YOU care about anything I have to say?
Your call sign:
You came;you did NOT see correctly;you SURE as heck did not conquer.
MISNOMER time: HAMMER-TIME rhythm.
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