A satirical song about Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov, who has been fired from his post by Dmitry Medvedev. The melody and some of the lyrics have been taken from the song "Farewell, Moscow" (below), which was first performed at the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980.

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( До свиданья, Москва! Farewell, Moscow )

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"For Olympic games without barbed wire". A statement of Russian human-rights activists. China must free all political prisoners, allow international and human-right organisations to inspect its penitentiary institutions and guarantee to journalists a freedom of movement in China and a freedom of contacts with the local population. Without ( Read more... )