Category: music

  • Moonwalk in Moscow

    A nice tribute to [Michael Jackson](http://metkere.com/en/2009/07/michael-shalenko-jackson.html): Russians dance “like MJ” [in streets of Moscow](http://real-ainger.livejournal.com/79339.html).

    Previously at metkere.com: [Spider-Man in Moscow](http://metkere.com/en/2009/05/spiderman.html), [Mummies at Red Square](http://metkere.com/en/2009/01/mummies.html) and [“We are the Champions” in Altay Language](http://metkere.com/en/2008/08/altay-champions.html).

  • Michael Shalenko-Jackson

    A Russian woman from Novosibirsk region [has decided to name](http://en.rian.ru/russia/20090701/155402377.html) her newborn son after Michael Jackson.

    Jackson fan Yevgenia Shalenko, 29, gave birth to a boy on the day of the pop legend’s death.

    “My son’s birthday is both the happiest and the saddest day of my life, as the first thing I learned after recovering from labor was that Jackson had died”, Shalenko told.

    The woman has already filed a request to register her son as Michael Shalenko-Jackson.

  • ‘We are the Champions’ in Altay Language

    Here’s a weird version of the Queen’s song “We are the champions” sung in [Altay language](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altay_language) by the local musicians.

    And the same song in Karelian: