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RUSSIAN GRANNY ENERGY

Remember the 1990's and girl power? The 2010's is all about granny power :-) The Udmurtian grannies from Buranovo village did not only win the Russian national selection for Eurovision and become an internet sensation overnight (over 1 million views on eurovision.tv alone) and one of the hottest, if not the hottest favorite in Baku 2012 but they also woke up the interest in the Udmurt language and roots among the young people in region. Udmurt, a Finno-Ugric language has been suffering in the ex-Sovjet Union just like Carelian and all the other Finnish and Hungarian related languages when people were forced to move around and there was Russian language only policy. Many of those language are basically dead or nearly so but the grannies will make sure at least Udmurt will have a momentary breath of life. While waiting for their trip to Baku their life goes on as usual in Buranovo. They tell: "We wake up at six o'clock and go milk the cows and...

Finno-Ugric grannies for Russia?

Russia's TV has been very silent this year and no open call for the songs has been given and no rumours either until the last few days when it was given almost certain the Buranovskie Babushki would be the one. They charmed the world last year in the Russian selection ( here ) and the idea has been welcomed with delight by most everyone. Now let's see if it happens! Finns would be surely more than happy for that as the grannies do not sing in Russian but in Udmurt, a Finno-Ugric language from the Ural mountains.... listen some more here .Apparenly it seems thoughn that they do not have a song ready and time is running out so the other emerging possibility is Alexey Vorobyov who releases his debut album next week produced by ... Swedish Red One.... sigh.