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Kazan video
Kazan is going to host the Universiade competition in 2013. Here's an advertisment for it. The aerial footage of the Kazan Kremlin toward the end I rather like, though it's quite short.
Kazan is actually a great city for this type of event. It's peaceful, clean, and has great food.
Sad to say, the video itself nauseates me. It's much too oily, tries to summon up "peace and friendship" images in a way that is completely unrealistic. In Russian there is a verb миридружбоваться, which means "to peace-and-friendship each other." It means to get together with superficial expressions of socialist harmony, saying "we all live in peace and friendship together" when in fact there is a world of unexpressed tension and unresolved conflict under that saccharine facade.