Happy new year

A song released Dec. 20 by the anti-war Russian singer Maksim Pokrovsky (who now lives in the U.S.); the two...

As in many of the songs [from our group, "Nogu Svelo!" More broadly, in the words of the The one exception was "Ukraine"—and that was only a partial exception, because Ukrainian blood flows through many Russians, because many of them have close relatives in Ukraine. The video struck me as much more effective, because it is much subtler, than the video of his "Ukraine," and the lyrics are also subtler than some of his earlier, more directly satirical (though often very funny) work. The video has 2.5M YouTube views over the last month, so I think it struck a chord. 20](https://twitter.com/NoguSvelo/status/1605542434246496256) by the anti-war Russian singer Maksim Pokrovsky (who now lives in the U.S.); the two actors are prominent Russian actors who have also [fled Russia](https://www.euronews.com/culture/2022/03/22/russian-actress-chulpan-khamatova-flees-country-after-denouncing-the-invasion-of-ukraine) after signing a statement opposing the war.