The BBC report dosen't have half the jokes on his campaign. He dosen't say that he will Work like a negro, instead he says like here http://www.all-news.net/?id=44950
«с утра до ночи пахать как негр ради благополучия жителей района»
Meaning: From morning till night I will plow like negro for the helpfullness of the residents of the region.
«Если россияне привыкли называть чернокожих „неграми“, то пусть так оно и будет. Я не обижаюсь, потому, как мы должны гордиться тем, кто мы есть»
If Russians are used to calling blackskins negroes, well let that be. I am not hurt, becuase, how we supposed to be ashamed of, who we are.
Here he is inspired by Obama:
«Мне нравится Обама как человек и как политик, потому что он смог сделать то, что большинству казалось невозможным. Я думаю, что могу чему-нибудь у него научиться»
I like Obama like a human and like a politician, becuase what he is able to do, what was considered by most to be impossible. I think that I can learn something from him
Но кроме этого он сталкивается с незавидной реальностью чернокожего в России, стране с прочно укоренившимися расовыми предубеждениями.
Not a quote, but the article admits that the Russian Obama is achieving in an unfavourable reality with blacks in Russia, a country with longstanding racism. Now a quote from the Ludmila of Mosocw who works in the Moscow Proestant Church, an organization that works wtih Africans, «Над ними часто насмехаются и издеваются в метро или на рынках»
- On there are times when they are laughed at or made fun on in the metro and on the produce market.
The article continues to describe his life, he finished university in Vologradski region, and returne to thank all the people who helped him as well as help make his native region a better place, where in some steerts goats roam freely and after rain the water brings a mess to the streets. He married a local woman. They live in a 20 hectare area where their 20 employees grow watermelons to sell on the main procduce market in town.
Many of his neighbors do not feel like he is working hard enough.
«Он не вырос среди нас и не пережил с нами все наши проблемы; он не колхозник» - He did not grow up here and did not live with us and our problems, he is not a collective farmer (this attitude I disagree with, I hate people discouraging rural work, it is not ideal when thousands of chinese are needed to work in the rural farms)
Another of his neighbours -
« Если мне понадобится помощь при строительстве дома, он не сможет помочь мне получить нужные разрешения и документы, потому что сам никогда не проходил через это».
If I needed help before I constructed my house, he could not help me get necessary permission and documents, because he himself has never went through his process.
Yet meaning townspeople admire his courage. Even people who did not know his policies though he was a good person.
Other people consider him naive faithfully. Local department store clerk said that she would not vote for him becuase she did now want to "Live in Africa". Another said that he will not vote for blacks.
Finally someone says "I admire our people and have faith in our system and country, but the problems we have cannot be changed by one man"
Another says "..... I like idealistic people"
Another article though claims that many in the region believe his victory to be impossible.
So this is just some statements from the russian media about the Russian Obama and their thoughts on him.
:edit: As per Red Elk's suggestion
«с утра до ночи пахать как негр ради благополучия жителей района»
Meaning: From morning till night I will plow like negro for the helpfullness of the residents of the region.
«Если россияне привыкли называть чернокожих „неграми“, то пусть так оно и будет. Я не обижаюсь, потому, как мы должны гордиться тем, кто мы есть»
If Russians are used to calling blackskins negroes, well let that be. I am not hurt, becuase, how we supposed to be ashamed of, who we are.
Here he is inspired by Obama:
«Мне нравится Обама как человек и как политик, потому что он смог сделать то, что большинству казалось невозможным. Я думаю, что могу чему-нибудь у него научиться»
I like Obama like a human and like a politician, becuase what he is able to do, what was considered by most to be impossible. I think that I can learn something from him
Но кроме этого он сталкивается с незавидной реальностью чернокожего в России, стране с прочно укоренившимися расовыми предубеждениями.
Not a quote, but the article admits that the Russian Obama is achieving in an unfavourable reality with blacks in Russia, a country with longstanding racism. Now a quote from the Ludmila of Mosocw who works in the Moscow Proestant Church, an organization that works wtih Africans, «Над ними часто насмехаются и издеваются в метро или на рынках»
- On there are times when they are laughed at or made fun on in the metro and on the produce market.
The article continues to describe his life, he finished university in Vologradski region, and returne to thank all the people who helped him as well as help make his native region a better place, where in some steerts goats roam freely and after rain the water brings a mess to the streets. He married a local woman. They live in a 20 hectare area where their 20 employees grow watermelons to sell on the main procduce market in town.
Many of his neighbors do not feel like he is working hard enough.
«Он не вырос среди нас и не пережил с нами все наши проблемы; он не колхозник» - He did not grow up here and did not live with us and our problems, he is not a collective farmer (this attitude I disagree with, I hate people discouraging rural work, it is not ideal when thousands of chinese are needed to work in the rural farms)
Another of his neighbours -
« Если мне понадобится помощь при строительстве дома, он не сможет помочь мне получить нужные разрешения и документы, потому что сам никогда не проходил через это».
If I needed help before I constructed my house, he could not help me get necessary permission and documents, because he himself has never went through his process.
Yet meaning townspeople admire his courage. Even people who did not know his policies though he was a good person.
Other people consider him naive faithfully. Local department store clerk said that she would not vote for him becuase she did now want to "Live in Africa". Another said that he will not vote for blacks.
Finally someone says "I admire our people and have faith in our system and country, but the problems we have cannot be changed by one man"
Another says "..... I like idealistic people"
Another article though claims that many in the region believe his victory to be impossible.
So this is just some statements from the russian media about the Russian Obama and their thoughts on him.
:edit: As per Red Elk's suggestion
