Baby Yoga with Lena Fokina - Fake Or Real?

New TYT Network channels: http://www.youtube.com/user/tytsports

http://www.youtube.com/user/thetopvlog

New TYT Facebook Page(!): http://www.facebook.com/tytnation

Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/theyoungturks

http://www.theyoungturks.com/membership

DISCOUNTS: http://www.theyoungturks.com/godaddy

FREE Movies(!): http://www.netflix.com/tyt

Note: The above two links are for TYT sponsors.

Read Ana's blog and subscribe at:

http://www.examiner.com/x-5445-Politi...

TYT Network (new WTF?! channel): http://www.youtube.com/user/whatthefl...

Check Out TYT Interviews http://www.youtube.com

The following video shows a Russian lady subjecting a squirming baby to "dynamic exercises" that involve swinging it by its arms and ankles, upside down and over her head. Oddly, there is precedent: Russian swinging baby videos are a meme.

"Baby Yoga with Lena Fokina" (as, I am told, the title frame translates) originated on YouTube. It contains a URL that leads to a Russian '404 error' page. The baby moves at the beginning (0:10) and end (5:10), and spends the middle portion swinging around like a discus. It's so ridiculous, I burst out laughing the first time I saw the baby flip—then grew uncomfortably quiet as I contemplated that possibility that I was watching an infant being hopelessly maimed. But it can't be real, right?

As it turns out, Russian swinging baby videos of dubious origin are a recurring phenomenon: Two years ago, video of a Russian (or perhaps Ukranian) man swinging a baby by its arms and legs ignited mass hysteria and led to Australian police raiding a journalist's house. (Child abuses charges were later dropped.) In the aftermath, Liveleak posted a clip from a documentary about a Russian circus family, which shows a man "training" a baby by swinging it around, albeit significantly more gently.

So where are these Russian swinging babies coming from? Is there someone in Russia producing these videos, chuckling under his breath when everyone freaks out? Or is it one of those oft-repeated, ever-evolving xenophobic legends, like the myth about Chinese restaurants sneaking cat meat into our takeout? Or do people in the Slavic world actually swing babies through the air, and just don't care? In which case I predict a Cold War of righteous indignation, starting as soon as the above video appears on its first American mommy blog. [YouTube]

http://gawker.com/5726703/this-baby+s...

• Category

  News & Politics

[69roxan]

Whats wrong with you people? That baby is real and you can see it crying ...There are other videos of women doing this same thing with real babies and you're saying nobody does this so it can't be real...Well if you were doing your research correct since you claim to be the largest online news show in the world you would know about the other videos. who knows how many more do it ..You shouldn't put out news if you don't know what you're talking about..Nobody like inaccurate news

[daniele oliveira]

isso e absurdo !!!!

[mariagraymail1]

Fuckin cunt why would u do that to a helpless baby just wait till he grows and he's gonna kick your ass

[Pelitauti]

???????????? WHAT!!! STUPID RUSSIAN PEOPLE!!!

[Geo Stellar]

Leave him alone!

[pinkgirl41822]

Fuck you you are a really sad mother ..... I hate youuu baby abuse !!!!!!

[Alexlg02]

I wonder what that baby was feeling

[suman Bhattarai]

It would be a shame for you not to build muscle when these people bulk up so easily with MAD Muscle Ripper (Google it).

[tyler lewis]

Dumb Russians that's why you lose ever war

[Mena D]

Give me 5 minutes with this bitch, you stupid sadist!!!!!

[ShelleyLee Dean]

You bitch of a mother ! What you playing at if i saw you i would swing you around as a fucking rag doll you silly cunt.....

[Blanca Hernandez]

This video was examined on the news by a doctor and the doctor said that this should by no means be done to a baby because of shaken brain syndrome, being that the baby's brain is still not fully developed and can move around easily with all the movement being done in the video causing retardation.