Ukraine war: New year in Putin’s Russia - nothing is normal
The clock in the Kremlins Spassky Tower strikes midnight.
The Russian national anthem plays.
Then Channel One TV kicks off 2023 with a pop song: "Im Russian and I will go all the way…Im Russian, to spite the world."
Next on Top of the (patriotic) Pops: "I was born in the Soviet Union, I was made in the USSR!"
I change channels. At the Russia-1 New Year party, one of the stations most famous war correspondents is holding a champagne glass, toasting 2023 and wishing for "more good news than bad from the front line".
The clock in the Kremlins Spassky Tower strikes midnight.
The Russian national anthem plays.
Then Channel One TV kicks off 2023 with a pop song: "Im Russian and I will go all the way…Im Russian, to spite the world."
Next on Top of the (patriotic) Pops: "I was born in the Soviet Union, I was made in the USSR!"
I change channels. At the Russia-1 New Year party, one of the stations most famous war correspondents is holding a champagne glass, toasting 2023 and wishing for "more good news than bad from the front line".
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