Leningrad again, back in form with some interesting cinematography: we replay a great disaster, in reverse, rewinding to discover its origins...
In Soviet Russia, girl meets boy: (and here instead of comrades in legwarmers we have comrades in recitals)
A little more urban than either the previous time we saw Silenzium, or their last tube:
But I guess we really should have expected another A.Пахмутова composition after their full-on Young Pioneer rendition of:
Judging by the several examples on YT like «Выпускной Клип 2014 Днепропетровск школа 57»
Zveri's song has become a school-leaving anthem, somewhat analogous to "No more pencils/No more books".
Seems appropriate enough for the context in which I heard it today: a cabaret-style radio report on the California exit petition:
[Edit: I'd misremembered 'pencils' as 'rulers']
it's not my 'zik, so I have no clue if: might ever be as much of a "New Year's Hit" as the title brags, but the video track confirms that not only I, but also native speakers, have noticed a fair amount of similarity between themes in western breakdance and in eastern dances of peasant origin; the latter half mixes these tropes nicely.