The summer of 2019 in Russia (like 2020) was very turbulent. Journalist Ivan Golunov was arrested and (after much uproar) released again, opposition candidates were denied entry into the Moscow City Duma elections (on September 8), and protests broke out. Volodya Kotlyarov, lead singer of PornoFilms (Порнофильмы), picked up his guitar and sang.

Герой нашего времени (Hero of Our Time) is a novel (from 1840) by Mikhail Lermontov, but you probably already knew that, and if not, check Wikipedia. If you change the й to и, you turn the hero into heroes (an explanation of plurals in the nominative case can be found here), and we’re right where we need to be: with the song (from 2018) with a striking video by НАИВ (or NAIV, Naïve).

Slim, or Slimus (Moscow 1981), comes from Centr. From his EP Место под луной (A Place Under the Moon, 2018), Намедни means something like: recently, lately. Slim gives his take, and the visuals are equally striking.