Gazprom's corporate anthem

Tue, 06/09/2009 - 3:04pm

RFE TransMission shares this truly mind-blowing corporate anthem from Russian gas monopoly Gazprom (with English subtitles):

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Jagshemash! Borat first sang it! Great success!

by Hawthorn on Wed, 06/10/2009 - 1:47am

Kazakhstan greatest country in the world.
All other countries are run by little girls.
Kazakhstan number one exporter of potassium.
Other countries have inferior potassium.

-- Kazakhstan National Anthem (not!), by Sacha Baron Cohen a/k/a Borat

Gazprom corporate song

by Kimberly.Marten on Wed, 06/10/2009 - 8:00am

Do we know when this was done? I would guess it was in the immediate post-Soviet era: older cars, older style of clothing, shiny new building in an empty field, Soviet-style music; and I think Chernomyrdin appears in the closing section, who led Gazprom from 1989-92. During the Soviet era this would have been a typical thing for any large enterprise to have, and this may have been an attempt at immediate post-Soviet "rebranding" of a newly "Russian" company.

I would guess that any similar "anthem" for Gazprom today would feature a driving metal rock beat, and images of Russian power rather than friendliness.