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Just made me smile. Was in our kitchen humming/singing away mindlessly, when my Russian flatmate stopped me to ask what I was singing. I resang it, obviously in a beautiful clear soprano voice, and it turned out it was a popular Russian song ... that I had picked up from Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin. So between 1878 when Tchaikovsky decided to weave popular Russian folk melodies into the musical fabric of his opera and 2007 when some of that music stuck in my mind, not much has changed: popular melodies are still popular.