Gold is my fav. But this song is great too.

Sometimes being alone is the best way to know more about every little corner of your soul :)

Thanks. But what is wrong with the "politically engaged mainstream"?

In this video all is OK!!! If you do not understand me... Politically engaged mainstream? It when do from the art the instrument of manipulation and destruction of public consciousness. Examples - on the mass TV. It is mediocre music and asocial schizophrenic video made by mentally sick people. Try to mute sound on similar TV clips. You are to be surprised...

"It when do from the art the instrument of manipulation and destruction of public consciousness. " So I guess you take as main reference Putin's dictatorial government? It seems like an old discussion from the sixties but maybe it is a consequence of Putin's moving back to the Cold War days playground.. In a Democracy like we live in Canada, there is no central government trying to destruct public consciousness. As in any market economy there is a lot of noisy marketing, but it is not centrally imposed. People freely see , listen and can choose and then vote by their purchasing power. Artists have the right and obligation to be engaged and I am grateful that they play a main role (like "Pussy Riots" in Russia.) On the other hand, people have the right to like different kind of music and we are not in a special position to say what is the right music for everyone but we can express what we personally like, as in the case, Wild Country" by Wake Owl . In any case, leaving politics aside, I respect Russian science, music and ballet and of course the beautiful Russian women. Cheers.

The first. I am the opponent of policy of Putin in its market relation and in some other aspects. Also I can openly speak about it and I won't be arrested. It means a dictatorship? :) Give your definition of a dictatorship, and I will answer you as far as it corresponds to a situation in Russia. I don't consider Putin's policy dictatorial. If you other opinion - welcome to Russia. Live here, and define, as far as "Putin's regime" the dictatorial. The second. Democracy = national will. The people of Canada voted or held a referendum for that in the territory of Canada global players, like Wallmart prospered? How, by the way, at you with the competition in small business? Private dealers aren't pressed by large hypermarkets? Purchasing power is formed by number of debt obligations. Therefore, it is difficult to speak about freedom here... We not speak about owners of banks? :) The third. What positive in "Pussy Riots" which propagandize fascism? Hitler, apparently, didn't attack Canada, and losses of Canada in 45000 soldiers aren't equivalent 11355000 soldiers and to 26600000 million civilians of the USSR. I think, it is rather difficult to you to judge "positivity" of "Pussy Riots". Strange that World War II strongly affected Canada, but you praise now those who propagandizes fascism. Probably, it is connected with an otstutstviye of losses of civilians by Canada. Old men, women and children. Otherwise, you absolutely in a different way would treat "truthful" news of CNN. And at what here cold war? There is a real world situation when banks regulate global policy. I against financial pyramids and world fascism with it connected. Music those in whom now order more money. By the way, PR not the Russian organization. Her patron - UNA-UNSO. Which, also treats Ukraine a little. Speaking about art, there are certain principles. If they aren't, art it is possible to call also full lack of talent. There has to be surely a strict theoretical approach. The main problem of the last decades in art is that the academic principles are rejected. It generated a stop problem in development of art and the mass of the mediocre participants filling all space.

Russia Today: - Country governed by an ex-KGB boss. He looks more the leader of the organized mafia than the leader of a Democratic country. A constant lier, if he says A then not A is true. - Suppression of the opposition for whatever means possible. - Putin is perpetuating in power like a Tsar. - Manipulation of the media like in the old soviet times. The media seems to be describing a science fiction world. - No respect for human rights whatsoever. No rights for minorities like gays, lesbians, blacks or jews. Of course this situation doesn't surprise in a country that has the worst records of violations of Human Rights in the history of the humankind (maybe comparable in atrocities with Nazi Germany) like for example the Gulag. Another example, Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union, created the conditions to cause a famine in Ukraine to destroy the people looking for freedom. "An estimated 7,000,000 persons perished in this farming area, known as the breadbasket of Europe, with the people deprived of the food they had grown with their own hands." - No respect for international laws, like for example Putin's invasion of Crimea and the direct support of the Russian separatists that attack Ukraine, a Democratic country. - I remember how happy I was with the fall of the Berlin wall and the "Glasnost." It occurred to me that Russia was finally to start practicing fair play among the concert of nations. With Putin, every single gain the country has done since these times, is lost.

It is!