Russian prez launches YouTube channel

Joining the Pope, Barack Obama, Gordon Brown, and five billion teenagers lip-syncing to terrible pop music, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has launched his own channel on YouTube to reach a more youthful audience. YouTube's 'all Kremlin, all the time' channel rollout comes at the same time as Russia's nationwide "Knowledge …

[Steve Roper]

In Soviet Russia...

YouTube uploads to YOU!

[Chris Miller]

Great video editing

You can hardly see the strings and Putin's hand only comes into shot once.

Na zdarovye!

[I ain't Spartacus]

All Kremlin! All the time!

Surely a title like that can only have come from the fevered brain of Chris Morris?

I find that as I get older more of modern life (and especially media) begins to sound like it was penned by Morris. It's like that feeling that policemen are getting younger, only a LOT more scary. Either my brain can't cope with the strain, or the world's going to hell in a handbasket...

[Big Al]

Good grief....

Given Vlad the Bad's pre-presidential career (he was in the propaganda business for the KGB for a while), I'm amazed it's taken them this long...

[3BEPOTEKCT]

Same Words Said Though As Always

In Soviet school:

- Who Youtube? Me Yotube? I'll get ya, jerk... after the classes!

In Russian school:

Now pupils, at the beginning of the year we will watch Youtube.

Pupils: "Превед, Медвед!"

Paris becausee she's studying Russian cyberpunk presently.

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