The other day I was trying to find something in my LiveJournal (use tags, people—don’t repeat my mistakes) and noticed that the post "this is a celebrity on a Russia-wide scale" had racked up almost 4,000 comments. That’s a record for my little blog. I remember posts with 2,000–2,500 comments, but 4,000—never. It was quite a noisy story. I didn’t organize anything myself on this issue, but I saw lots of messages saying, "I filed a complaint." And Zhirinovsky, as we may recall, even sent a formal parliamentary inquiry about it.
On this account alone, the video was viewed by 4.3 million people.
Here, it has 274,000 views. I regularly get messages asking: how did the story with "Smotra" end? And I don’t know myself—I’m curious how it ended too. But yesterday one of my readers sent me this: