Monthly Archives: October 2009

Video from Russia: Putin and Family Guy!

Putin and Family Guy!Do you watch the “Family Guy” series? – We don’t. But this morning “Family Guy” made our day. They showed Russian former President and now Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in 1 and half minutes episode and that made day for all Russians. Putin was showed in very nice way – we really liked it. So now you can watch the episode. But just remember that Vladimir Putin does not smoke and has very healthy style of life [I think we all should do ;)]

Russian Video from Russia
Svet and Kyle

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Russian Greenpeace about Climat Change!

Hello,

we decided to take action in Blog Action Day 2009 (This year that is about Climate Change).

We found a lot of interesting videos on Climate Change theme. But we choose a documentary Greenpeace investigates Petermann glacier it’s in English and with Russian subtitles:

Look at the impressive picture by Dave Walsh – that’s time to act!
Russian Video from Russia
Svet and Kyle

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Russian Video: Necessity Is The Mother of Invention!

Necessity is the mother of inventionLook at the strange cars and trucks – They are funny but they can run!

This video suits for a Russian saying “Голь на выдумку хитра” (The English translation is “Necessity is the mother of invention“).

Read more about the strange automobiles here: In Russia the Village of Tatar Saiman has the “Top-Top”!

Russian Video from Russia
Svet and Kyle

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Russian Video: Alexander Rozenbaum 'Waltz Boston'!

Just a beautiful video: Russian city Novosibirsk (central park), Autumn and Alexander Rozenbaum sings his beautiful song “Waltz Boston”:


Russian Lyrics and English translation of the Alexander Rozenbaum song “Waltz Boston”:

На ковре из желтых листьев
В платьице простом
Из подаренного ветром крепдешина
Танцевала в подворотне осень вальс – Бостон,
Отлетал теплый день и хрипло пел саксофон.
И со всей округи люди приходили к нам,
И со всех окрестных крыш слетались птицы,
Танцовщице золотой захлопав крыльями…
Как давно, как давно звучала музыка там!

Как часть вижу я сон, мой удивительный сон,
В котором осень нам танцует вальс – Бостон!
Там листья падают вниз,
Пластинки крутится диск:
“Не уходи, побудь со мной, ты – мой каприз…”
Как часто вижу я сон, мой удивительный сон,
В котором осень нам танцует вальс – Бостон!

Опьянев от наслажденья, о годах забыв,
Старый дом, давно влюбленный в свою юность,
Всеми стенками качался, окна отворив,
И всем тем, кто в нем жил, он это чудо дарил.
А когда затихли звуки в сумраке ночном-
Все имеет свой конец, свое начало,-
Загрустив, всплакнула осень
Маленьким дождем…
Ах, как жаль этот вальс,
Как хорошо было в нем!

Как часть вижу я сон, мой удивительный сон,
В котором осень нам танцует вальс – Бостон!
Там листья падают вниз,
Пластинки крутится диск:
“Не уходи, побудь со мной, ты – мой каприз…”
Как часто вижу я сон, мой удивительный сон,
В котором осень нам танцует вальс – Бостон!

Upon a carpet of yellow leaves
In a simple dress
Of crepe borrowed from the wind
She danced in courtyard the Autumn waltz – Boston,
The warm day flew on as the saxophone sang
And from all around people came to us,
And from all the eaves birds flew up,
Dancers of gold beating their wings…
How long ago, how long ago, the music played there!

How often I see the dream, my wonderful dream,
In which Autumn dances for us the Boston waltz!
There the leaves fall down,
The plastic records twirl:
“Don’t go, be with me, you’re my caprice…”
How often I see the dream, my wonderful dream,
In which Autumn dances for us the Boston waltz!

Drunken from enjoyment, of forgotten years,
Old home, long-beloved in its youth,
All its walls are lurching, its windows broken,
And to all those who lived there, it gave this wonder.
But when the sounds of in the gloom of night have quieted down –
Everything has its end, its beginning, –
Autumn mourned sadly
With small showers…
Ah, how sad is this waltz,
How nice it was there!

How often I see the dream, my wonderful dream,
In which Autumn dances for us the Boston waltz!
There the leaves fall down,
The plastic records twirl:
“Don’t go, be with me, you’re my caprice…”
How often I see the dream, my wonderful dream,
In which Autumn dances for us the Boston waltz!

Have a beautiful Autumn!

Russian Video from Russia
Svet and Kyle

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Russian Video: Let's Learn Judo with Vladimir Putin!

Putin Teaches JudoRussian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin turned 57 yesterday. But today I want to tell you about his previous birthday when he turned 56 and presented his DVD “Let’s Learn Judo With Vladimir Putin”.

Here we’ll publish a full version of the movie “Учимся дзюдо с В.В. Путиным” (in Russian):

Happy Birthday Vladimir Putin!!!

Russian Video from Russia
Svet and Kyle

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Russian Video: Doctor Liza!

Her name is Elizoveta Glinka but all RuNet (Russian-Speaking Internet) call her Doctor Liza. She has a blog on LiveJournal (Доктор Лиза’s Journal) and 5 000 readers. She lived with her family in USA (her two sons and her husband are still in USA) and came back to Russia after her Mom got stroke. Her Mom died, but Doctor Liza stayed somewhere between Russia and Ukraine. She opened the first hospice in Kiev and works there. In Moscow she visits and helps hopeless patients and once a week she comes and helps homeless people on Paveletsky train terminal in Moscow. In Moscow she has fund “Fair help” to help hopeless none-cancer patients because there are hospices for cancer patients in Moscow.

Recently Olga Danova and Elena Pogrebizhskaya made a documentary movie about Doctor Liza. The movie “Doctor Liza” got TEFI – 2009 (Russian: ТЭФИ) is an annual award given in the Russian television industry, presented by the Russian Academy of Television.

Here our English speaker readers can watch a trailer of the movie “Doctor Liza” with English subtitles:


Here you can watch full movie (in Russian):
Doctor Liza

And I believe for Russian speaking readers an interview with Elizoveta Glinka (Doctor Liza) by Школа Злословья (2007) will be very interesting:


Russian Video from Russia
Svet and Kyle

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Russian Video: Sergei Esenin: Otgovorila Roscha Zolotaya (Golden Grove)!

Hello,

It’s fall (autumn) here and it’ beautiful. Russian poet Sergei Esenin (October 3, 1895 – December 27, 1925) has a very beautiful lyric poem about fall – fall of nature and fall of life.


Russian Lyrics and English translation by V. Chetin:

Отговорила роща золотая
Березовым, веселым языком,
И журавли, печально пролетая,
Уж не жалеют больше ни о ком.

Кого жалеть? Ведь каждый в мире странник –
Пройдет, зайдет и вновь оставит дом.
О всех ушедших грезит конопляник
С широким месяцем над голубым прудом.

Стою один среди равнины голой,
А журавлей относит ветер в даль,
Я полон дум о юности веселой,
Но ничего в прошедшем мне не жаль.

Не жаль мне лет, растраченных напрасно,
Не жаль души сиреневую цветь.
В саду горит костер рябины красной,
Но никого не может он согреть.

Не обгорят рябиновые кисти,
От желтизны не пропадет трава,
Как дерево роняет тихо листья,
Так я роняю грустные слова.

И если время, ветром разметая,
Сгребет их все в один ненужный ком…
Скажите так… что роща золотая
Отговорила милым языком.

A golden grove has ceased at last its chatter
In a merry accent of its birches’ tongue.
Afar, a flight of cranes, dejected, flutter,
No more lamenting over anyone.

Who to lament for? Everyone’s a stranger –
Goes by, comes in and leaves the house anon.
A hemp-close only dreams of all who left, and
A harvest moon above a bluish pond.

I’m all alone amid a barren flatland.
A gust of wind is carrying cranes away.
It is my joyful youth that I’m intent on,
But nothing in the gone do I bewail.

I don’t feel sorry for the years, squandered,
Or for a lilac thriving of my soul.
A fire of rowan berries, in the courtyard,
Is burning red albeit unable to warm.

The rowan berry clusters will not scorch, and
The grass won’t perish from the yellow dry.
Like trees are slowly shedding their foliage,
So am I shedding doleful words of mine.

And if the time, when sweeping with an airflow,
Should grab them all in one unwanted lump,
Then say as follows… that a golden birch grove
Has ceased its chatter in a lovely tongue.

Russian Video from Russia
Svet and Kyle

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Russian Video: Mimino (Film)!

Hello, this weekend we are watching one more masterpiece of lyric comedies by Georgi Daneliya (we already watched another his movie “Autumn Marathon”)

Today we are watching Mimino (1977) – one of the most soul-touching and philosophical comedies made in Soviet time. To understand Russians you must watch this video even it was made in Georgia!

One of my most favorite movies and of course with English subtitles! Let’s watch:

Mimino got Special Prize of International Moscow Film Festival 1977.

Russian Video from Russia
Svet and Kyle

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Video Excursion – Beautiful St.Petersburg (Russia)!

If you don’t know how to spend your weekend I recommend you to go to St.Petersburg (Russia) – one of the most beautiful cities in the world! And that is not very far – modern planes fly fast! You still have doubts? Then watch just a beautiful full length video excursion to St. Petersburg!

Watch others excellent videos about St.Petersburg: Russan Video shows St. Petersburg.

Russian Video from Russia
Svet and Kyle

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