The All-Russia People’s Front, created around the Party of Crooks and Thieves, has gotten itself a page on the worldwide web, lol.
And not just anywhere, but on the site premier.gov.ru/onf/, created and maintained at taxpayers’ expense. But fine, we never expected anything else from them. What’s really wonderful is that the site has a poll widget (bottom right).
You can tell right away that the poll widget was made by United Russia people. You can vote there, but it doesn’t show the results. As in: you go ahead and vote, and then the sysadmin will come by and draw up whatever result is needed. (I’m not even going to discuss the “letters to the front” gimmick.) But that’s not actually why I’m writing. Let’s try to launch a new meme. Someone sent me what seems to be a brilliant idea on Twitter:
(as people point out, the author of the word is twitter.com/cursorov) to United-Russia away A new, timely, punchy, and above all intuitively understandable verb. It is planned that at least 30% of the budget funds allocated for highway construction will be United-Russiaed away. Stepanych couldn’t sleep that night; he was tormented by a bad feeling. In the morning he went out into the yard—and sure enough, his brand-new rubber boots, just bought at the village store, had been United-Russiaed away. - When will you finally have your fill of United-Russiaing things away, you devils! shouted old Maria, thrashing with a switch the scruffy-looking youths in white aprons who had climbed into her hut. The publication of income declarations showed that this year too, the person who United-Russiaed away the most was Deputy Prime Minister Shuvalov’s wife. Come up with and post in the comments some phrases where this new verb can be used to good effect. Spread it however you can. Let it enter everyday speech as easily as the paw of a United Russia member slips into the state budget.