Russian strippers send money to Crimea

[Larry1]

A renowned children's summer camp in Crimea that closed amid a legal dispute linked to the region's secession to Russia has found help in a rather unlikely place: a strip club in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don.

As the Artek camp, a UNESCO site that opened in 1925 along the Black Sea shore, awaits confirmation of its legal status and possible backing by President Vladimir Putin, the girls of Rostov-on-Don's Provintsia strip club are offering up their hard-earned cash to help keep the camp running.

"We know that after Crimea became part of Russia, this popular camp was closed," an exotic dancer named Lana told the online tabloid LifeNews. "Me and the other girls decided to not just stand by, but to actually do something! All the money that we're making tonight is going to Crimea!"

... As of Tuesday, the girls of Provintsia have already sent several tens of thousands of rubles to the camp...

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/497751.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+themoscowtimes%2Fnews+%28The+Moscow+Times+News%29

Very public-spirited of them.

[andrewfi]

The cynic in me suggests that it is subotnik.

[Larry1]

The cynic in me suggests that it is subotnik.

I had to look that word up.  For those of you who haven't heard of it, I think this is it:

Subbotnik and voskresnik (from Russian: суббо́та, IPA: [sʊˈbotə] for Saturday and воскресе́нье, IPA: [vəskrʲɪˈsʲenʲjə] for Sunday) were days of volunteer work following the October Revolution. The tradition is continued in modern Russia and some other former Soviet Republics. Subbotniks are mostly organized for cleaning the streets of garbage, fixing public amenities, collecting recyclable material, and other community services.

... "the communists and their supporters again must spur themselves on and extract from their time off still another hour of work, i.e. they must increase their working day by an hour, add it up and on Saturday devote six hours at a stretch to physical labour..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subbotnik

Performing a few extra dances to provide fraternal assistance.  That would bring a Bolshevik tradition into the modern era.