A shaman in underwear, muskrat saboteurs, and saints in Yekaterinburg city hall: a new #ShameReview from "NotMoscow"
The regional and federal agenda in Russia continues to be filled with absurd statements from officials, cultural figures, and the clergy. Ural governments are searching for righteous individuals to protect them from drones, children's cartoons are being censored on federal television, and Z-rated artists are publicly exposing their underwear right during official press conferences.
2x2 TV channel has colored out the rainbow in the cartoon "SpongeBob SquarePants."
The Russian animation channel "2x2" altered the original rainbow image in an episode of the popular American animated series "SpongeBob SquarePants." The scene where the main character creates a rainbow with his hands was completely covered in a solid yellow color.
Apparently, the channel's management decided to hedge against possible accusations of "LGBT propaganda." Such self-censorship is becoming a regular practice on Russian television.
Alexander Dugin predicted the elimination of nation states.
Philosopher and ideologist Alexander Dugin, in his latest speech, declared that Russia is exclusively a "civilization-state." In his opinion, the standard concept of a nation-state was created by "liberals or nationalists" and is categorically unsuitable for the country.
Dugin is convinced that classical nation-states have no historical future at all: in the coming years, they will either become pawns of others or completely dissolve into supranational blocs.
Ural deputy Wegner proposed distributing land to reduce the amount of time people spend on their devices.
Vyacheslav Wegner, a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Sverdlovsk Region, enthusiastically supported the idea of distributing free land plots to all interested citizens in order to alleviate the catastrophic demographic situation.
According to the Ural parliamentarian, people categorically refuse to have children in modern high-rise "human anthills." But on their own land, where citizens will have to toil hard and won't have time to sit in front of their gadgets, the birth rate will immediately improve.
Vladimir Mashkov demands that the rights of the departed heirs of the classics be revoked.
Vladimir Mashkov, artistic director of the Oleg Tabakov Theatre, proposed legislating a ban on the heirs of writers and playwrights who have left Russia from disposing of their literary works.
The actor expressed deep outrage that current Russian legislation still protects the private interests of successors. This, according to Mashkov, allows citizens who have left the country to dispose of the country's cultural heritage "as if it were their personal property."
Yakut biologists blame American muskrats for floods and sabotage
In the 1930s, Soviet authorities deliberately imported North American muskrats to Yakutia to mass-produce official hats. However, after the collapse of the USSR, capitalism completely destroyed the fur trade, and the "American" rodents began to roam freely throughout the region.
Now Yakut scientists are sounding the alarm: biologists claim that muskrats have completely driven the patriotic water vole from its ancestral lands and have also gnawed through local dams, causing massive flooding in several uluses. Innokenty Okhlopkov, director of the Institute of Biological Problems of the Cryolithozone, complained that the foreign rodents are behaving unpredictably, "like Americans."
Singer Shaman publicly showed off his underwear at a press conference.
At an official press conference, Z-singer Shaman (Yaroslav Dronov) decided to respond to long-standing criticism on social media related to the fact that he had previously been accused of performing on stage without underwear.
According to the artist, there have been many great political figures in Russian history to whom monuments are erected today, despite the fact that they, too, allegedly didn't wear underwear. To finally settle the matter and provide evidence, Shaman rose from the table and showed his underwear to the journalists present.
Archpriest Tkachev: Yekaterinburg needs 50 saints in the mayor's office and among the janitors
At a meeting with employees of the Yekaterinburg company Sima-Land, the notorious Archpriest Andrei Tkachev explained what the security of the Ural capital truly depends on. In his opinion, the city's security today is determined not only by the operation of air defense systems but also by the presence of righteous people.
According to Tkachev's calculations, a city with a population of over a million requires at least 50 saints, evenly distributed across various spheres: there must be one saint each in the mayor's office and the presidential representative's office, as well as among local street cleaners, drivers, and officials. Tkachev emphasized that without this, Yekaterinburg residents will simply "die of sin," as living surrounded exclusively by sinners is unbearably difficult.
