New Moscow Dance Craze: The Medvedev!

Pity the poor man who took this cell phone video of Russian President Dmitri Medvedev ripping it up to some horrid Russian technopop song, posted it to YouTube, created a viral video sensation, and is probably now cooling his heels in a Lubyanka waiting room. According to this AFP story, the clip was shot at a reunion of Medvedev's university class. And it obviously qualifies as the most interesting news story of the day:

Awkward moves, but he's no Julian Assange. And yes, this is all just an elaborate excuse to post the greatest video of the 1990s: Boris Yeltsin, full of booze and good cheer, appears to have a seizure on stage during a Russian music festival:

More of Boris's greatest hits here.

Comments

[Pro Libertate]

I wish it had been Putin, so I could say, "Putin on the Ritz!"

[Gregory Smith]

That's funny.

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[Episiarch]

GREGGGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[Gregory Smith]

EPISIARCHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[rather]

Hell, Medvedev rocked liked he has autism but Yelsin just looked his usual drunk self

[Warty]

If it's time for shitty Russian technopop, then it's time for this.

Winning comment:

this? is a masturbation minefield

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[nobody]

Warty, that was.....I don't know what that was. Horrifying and wonderful?

[kilroy]

I'm thinking that adds some ambiguity to "The Russians love their children too". What was the context for that?

[Malto Dextrin]

It's the singer's tongue piercings that really give the whole production true class.

[Warty]

Plus, her name is Angina.

[creech]

Is that Elaine Bennis in the background?

[Paul]

What is it with the Europeans and the bad techno pop... and this is coming from a guy who loves him some electronic music?

[dbcooper]

Ruskies are ruskies. The EU has produced some pretty horrific venga boys type crap though.

[Fist of Etiquette]

I demand caricatures! He needs to fold his arms in front of him and squat repeatedly while kicking out his legs.

[Paul]

Check the Assange video out. I'm pretty sure he did a little bit of that unloading-the-dishwasher move.

[Tanya]

942 hits qualifies as a viral video?

[Paul]

It's 'pre-viral'.

[rather]

His dancing was classic stimming http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONoBXC8FgJ4

[GILMORE]

Someone please overdub that with THIS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=setSxaOTUU0

[Heroic Mulatto]

I tried.

[Aresen]

Haven't watched.

Does he dance better than Al Gore?

[Douglas Fletcher]

As I remember it, Yeltsin had been bed ridden for a good amount of time before that & little seen in public during the campaign. My question when I saw him dancing back then was, how much speed did they inject the guy with, and how many doctors and nurses were waiting backstage to inject him with god knows what to bring him down afterwards.