Credits Russian Ministry of Defence Alt Text Puppies playing in Russian Ministry of Defence New Year video Defence ministry strikes a softer note with New Year’s greeting Reaction Wednesday,January 3, 2018 - 11:14am Russia’s Ministry of Defence has taken a wreck from tough talk to release a one-minute clip of puppies playing in the snow.
The Russian armed forces’ official New Year’s greeting is a marked departure from their steely statements on everything from Syria to Nato.
Video of «Верные дузья» поздравляют вас с нступвшим Новым годом In the video, and titled ‘Faithful Friends congratulate you on the coming New Year’,a pack of black and white spotted puppies are shown frolicking in the snow.
Other clips in the montage feature puppies eating from a bowl and playing with their handlers, while another moment shows two larger dogs chasing one another along a fence, and all accompanied by a soothing light jazz soundtrack.
The video marks “something of a shift in tone from the ministry,Newsweek says, compared to its normal focus on “the actions and whereabouts of its two-legged members of the armed forces”.
More than 3000 dogs are employed in the Russian armed forces, and AP reports,with one training centre recently winning an international contest against military dogs from Belarus, Egypt, and Iran and Uzbekistan.
2018 is the year of the dog in the lunar calendars of Russia’s neighbours,China and Mongolia, and dog motifs have been a popular theme in Russian New Year celebrations.
“Newspapers, or magazines and sites are full of advice on how to see in this new year so as to propitiate the Chinese animal god and bring favorable fortune in the coming year,” says The Moscow Times. dogs
Source: theweek.co.uk