Ukrainian pop: Svitlana Loboda - Down With Love (К Чёрту Любовь)

Eastern european rock often is rather sexual which can become a bit tedious when it done on routine, and even though I believe Svitlana could go easy on the lip-expansion, the video "Down With Love" does a great number of combining sexual tension with violence, making the borderline between sex not as clear as it normally is. As a fantasy it is surprisingly sublime and reminds me of Anna Sedokova's Between Us and "Heart In Bandages" in that the video creatively evolves inside its discourse.

• Svitlana Loboda - Down With Love (К Чёрту Любовь)

Ukrainian pop: Kazaky - Milk-Choc

Kazaky, the Ukrainian danc/pop group with obvoius gay undertones did another excellent music video last summer, this one on the 80s theme, and it was obvious how well their stylized look and sound suited this.

• Kazaky - Milk-Choc

Ukrainian pop: Time & Glass (Время и Стекло)

The duo Time & Glass from Ukraine consists of singer Alex Zavgorodniy and Nadia Dorofeeva, and they have made a number of visual videos where the Name 505 is clearly the best with its catchy sound synced with a flow of mesmeric images and scenes passing by.

• Time & Glass - Name 505
• Time & Glass - #kAroche
• Time & Glass - Song 404 (Песня 404)
• Time & Glass - Harmonic (Гармошка)
• Time & Glass - Point of no love (Любви Точка Нет)

Ukrainian pop: Vitaly Kozlovsky (Виталий Козловский)

Vitaly is actually a journalist, but it is as a singer he has been known. From the videos it is obvious he has a nice body and is more than willing to show it off, thereby nicely continuing a tradition often and mostly upheld by women in music videos from the russian language cultural sphere. What makes him worth noticing a little extra is the twisted irony of the new "Spending", which makes fun of the effects of spending money without caution.

• Vitaly Kozlovsky - Spending (Трачу)
• Vitaly Kozlovsky - Be Strong (Будь сильнее)
• Vitaly Kozlovsky and Julia Dumanskaya - Mystery (Тайна)
• Vitaly Kozlovsky & Varda - Do not leave me (Не оставляй меня)
• Vitaly Kozlovsky and Varda - Dance (Потанцуй)

Russian pop: Dante - Under the skin (Под кожу)

The new "Under the skin" may not be as suggestive or special as Dante's "I don't know" from last autumn, but it is still great russian eurodisco in the best of ways.

• Dante - Under the skin (Под кожу)

Russian pop: Nyusha - Tsunami (Цунами)

Nyusha from Russia released this last autumn. She have done some very decent music videos before, this follows up on that.

• Nyusha - Tsunami (Цунами)

Georgian pop: Diana Gurtskaya (Диана Гурцкая)

Some may remember Diana as the blind singer who represented Georgia in the ESC in 2008. This newer song from 2014 is a better one with a better quality "drama" in the song.

• Diana Gurtskaya - I'm losing you (Я тебя теряю)
• Diana Gurtskaya - Peace Will Come

Russian pop: Dante / Alexei Ismailov

Dante, or Alexei Ismailov, is a new acquaintance for me this year. Evidently he participated in Voice of Russia in 2012, but didn't get any success there. His earlier "I'm flying" also didn't do it for me, but the latest "I don't know" is quite different in style and so well produced, with the video being such a great celebration of charming and colorful fantasies.

• Dante - I don't know
• Dante - Under the skin
• Dante - I'm flying (Я Лечу)