BBC NEWS | Europe | Rap earns Russian soldier 'exile'
"A Russian army lieutenant is being sent to the Russian Far East after making a rap video complaining about conditions in his St Petersburg barracks.
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The video - titled "A letter to the minister of defence" - features footage of the squalid living conditions in the barracks.
The soldier's musical complaint sees him read out an email he is writing to the Russian defence minister, asking what happened to the mortgages promised to soldiers to buy decent places to live.
And why did he never receive a reply to his previous letters, he asks?
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And the video - posted on RuTube - has drawn hundreds of comments, our correspondent says.
Some fellow soldiers sympathised, but many viewers said it was disgraceful and had damaged the image of the Russian army. "
"A Russian army lieutenant is being sent to the Russian Far East after making a rap video complaining about conditions in his St Petersburg barracks.
--snip--
The video - titled "A letter to the minister of defence" - features footage of the squalid living conditions in the barracks.
The soldier's musical complaint sees him read out an email he is writing to the Russian defence minister, asking what happened to the mortgages promised to soldiers to buy decent places to live.
And why did he never receive a reply to his previous letters, he asks?
--snip--
And the video - posted on RuTube - has drawn hundreds of comments, our correspondent says.
Some fellow soldiers sympathised, but many viewers said it was disgraceful and had damaged the image of the Russian army. "
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