[lbo-talk] tATu on TV in OZ.....

[Chris Doss]

>Chris Doss wrote:
>
>>When Volkova was asked "how do you like Riga?" in the TV interview she 
>>answered, "It's a pretty shitty city."
>
>I don't get this. You said Russians are prudish, and there's a whole 
>register of obscene speech that is seriously scandalous. But she can cuss 
>on TV?
>

She said "drab," actually. I was translating liberally. :) It was on Latvian 
TV anyway.

In any case "shitty" (which would be "gavno") isn't that obscene in Russian. 
Don't think I've heard it on TV though.

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