This video should be of interest to people who are very knowledgeable about Russian literature, language and culture. For the others we provided remarks to help them out understand people and events mentioned in Zhirinovsky's speech. Russian politician Zhirinovsky spoke at the Federation Council about what everyone should do to protect Russian language from borrowing too many foreign words, when there are pure Russian alternatives. Aired live on RT on: 24/12/2014 Many thans for translation and description to Zahinho https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0ICG5D24Y0URj5hnYMwK2Q Remarks: 1. ‘’Dead souls’’ (1842), by Nikolai Gogol. Now, don’t get too excited about this. This is not some horror story with dead rising from their graves. This is a novel of Gogol, which basically shows some fraudster, who goes around, buying documents of peasants who already died, for cheap, to re-sell to others as living, to make money. You can read the English translation, and download it for free here (considered public domain): https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/g/gogol/nikolai/g61d/index.html Or read more information about it on WP page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Souls 2. ‘’Woe from wit’’ (1823), by Alexander Griboyedov. I haven’t read it, nor saw the play (maybe I did, but I don’t remember). I don’t know what’s it about. You can read the actual play here, although idk if you will understand anything: http://spintongues.vladivostok.com/griboyedov.htm Or read more information about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woe_from_Wit 3. ‘’Mumu’’ (1852), by Ivan Turgenev. So, this is a short story everyone is talking about. Shortly… It’s about a deaf and mute serf yardman – Gerasim, who was working at some rich noble woman, and who had nobody, but this 1 little dog that was constantly barking. So, cuz he was deaf, he didn’t mind, but the woman at some point got tired of it, and told him to get rid of it. So he went on a boat and drowned it. The ‘’official’’ morale and explanation of the story, which Zhirinovsky doubts, is to show the cruelty of rich people towards poor and miserable. You can read it translated here: https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/t/turgenev/ivan/mumu/ 4. If you don’t know who Vasilyeva is. She’s this middle age bitch, who was involved in corruption case in defense ministry. They, together with this fat corrupted defense minister Serdyukov stole billions in defense contracts, if not trillions. Vasilyeva got 3 years or something, but it doesn’t matter now, cuz she went to prison for 2 months, and now she’s free. Serdyukov got released, didn’t served any time. It’s Russia for you, guys. The more you steal, the less time you do. Paradox? Consistent pattern? Pick your poison. If you wanna read more about these 2 turds (not that you would want to), here is WP pages: Serdyukov: hhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoliy_Serdyukov Vasileva (no English WP page, only this ‘’New York Times’’ article: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/09/world/europe/russian-court-sentences-ex-official-to-5-years-in-prison-in-corruption-case.html?_r=1 http://nstarikov.ru/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/DIM_4888.jpg 5. Read more about Mayakovsky here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Mayakovsky No English WP page about Vishnevsky. Shortly, he is a poet. 6. Read more about Nikolai Rubtsov here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay_Rubtsov Read more about Sergei Yesenin here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Yesenin I just wanna point out, that Yesenin is a very very good poet. I’m a huge admirer of his work. It’s such an easy read, and extremely clever play of words. Unfortunately, you can’t fully understand it, unless you can speak fluent Russian. I don’t know how would they translate him to English, but if you can find any translations, I highly recommend it. 7. Medinsky is the minister of culture. Livanov - there are 3 Livanovs. All of them are related to theater, cinema, writing, etc. Idk who Z is referring to. 8.In Soviet Union, a 5 grade system was introduced in all schools and universities. But in reality, it was 4 grade system. 2 - fail, 3 - pass, 4 - high pass, 5 - perfect. 9. As you can already tell, these words are written with a hyphen, after a word you want, and before these words guy asked him about. In particular: ...-кое, ...-то, ...-либо, ...-нибудь, ...-таки. Keep us alive: http://russia-insider.com/support Visit us! http://russia-insider.com/en Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RussiaInsider?ref=aymt_homepage_panel Follow us on Google+ https://plus.google.com/+RussiaInsider Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RussiaInsider Subscribe to RI You Tube channel! https://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaInsiderTV

• published: 21 Oct 2015
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