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And as part of his efforts at mopping up after Gorbachev, Putin has decommissioned the Russian Anthem. He made it a top priority to create a new national anthem that would have the proper lyrics given that a lot of complaints surfaced from Russians that the previous national anthem did not have any words to go along with the music.
The new Russian anthem has already been unveiled and behold … it is surprisingly good, in fact it sounds a lot like so many of its Western European counterparts, it features blaring horns, bugles, pageantry, sounds very lighthearted and packs emotional depth.
Your way right away baby!
I compared the new Russian anthem to the British National anthem and it sounds very similar in timbre and in cadence. Don't listen to me though, you owe your audiophile character the pleasure of listening to it for yourself.
Congrats to Putin and the Russian national orchestra. They pulled no small feat. It's now the second national anthem since the USSR fell apart.
For those critics viewing Russia with the same spectacles as the Egyptian state are they missing something from the picture.
In 2011 Russia's Len Blavatnik's Access Industries acquired Warner Music Group for a little over $3.0 billion and the new WMG in turn acquired Gala Records, the first privately owned record label in Russia. But that's just the tip of the iceberg as Russian investors have moved billions into the American economy in the most recent years, taking up equity positions with companies such as Facebook and Icon Productions' UK division, partly owned and founded by Mel Gibson and the group responsible for mega hits such as Forever Young, Braveheart, and Maverick.
Cited by Reuters and Money Magazine in 2012, Russia's premiere investor Alisher Usmanov owns more than a billion dollar of market capitalization in Facebook, the social media powerhouse through his company Digital Sky Technologies and more Russian investors have followed suit expanding access to digital media distribution networks.
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