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What are teenagers watching in Kiev and Moscow right now on You Tube? Chances are some are  checking the latest video by Hitarda, "Dirty Games." The clip dropped late last month and already it has racked up nearly 2 million views. And guess what? The song is in English, so we're all in luck (or not, depending on your perspective). Anyway, Hitarda describe themselves as "a new generation of power-pop!" on their Facebook page. "We mix energy of the dance floor with legendary guitar riffs," they continue. "Our mission is to blur the boundaries between the coolest music styles." Mission impossible? Not for Ukraine! This project is the brainchild of composer Filipp Logvinenko. Check it below....better than their other popular video from earlier this year, "Sex & Rock n Roll."

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Hey remember Alyosha? You know, the young singer from Zaporizhia who repped Ukraine at ESC in 2010 with the song "Sweet People?" Yeah, well, she's back with a new song and it's called "Love Pheromone" or "Love Pheromones" ("Феромоны Любви"). Anyway, the video for the song debuted on TV late last month and a few low quality clips from that airing have been circulating online. But today a better quality clip has surfaced on You Tube. Really a nice song (written by Alyosha with her producer Vadim Lisitsa) and kind of average looking video (though good in parts), directed by Kiev's Alex Filatovich. Check it below.

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Remember Andreas? You know, the man of mystery behind last year's great Kazaky-esque "Make Love" video? Well, the Greek guy in Ukraine is back, and this time he's sharing the spotlight via a great duet with Kiev's Masha Sobko called "Сон на Луне" (or "Dream On The Moon"). The video is a sexually charged riot as well, aspiring to be something out of an old James Bond film, or something, with scenes of playful "torture." Strings add to the tension here, and the slightly spies gone bad feel of the song. But the best part is surely the electro Balkan breakdown towards the end. Check it below.

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What the hell is this, you ask? It's a new video by Ukraine's Dress Code. The song title ("Любовь больше жизни") translates to something like "Love Is More Than Life" and the brand new promo is kind of 'Avatar' esque. We're talking men without faces playing violin. We're talking planets made of crystals, and more. Clearly, Dress Code don't have anywhere near the budgets James Cameron is working with, but they certainly share his taste for the outlandish, alien and 'other' in this promo. Dress Code was founded in 2008 and "combines the best features of r&b, hip-hop and rap cultures with pop dance music," per their bio. The act has already released 16 songs and eight music video clips in Ukraine, so the least you can do is watch their latest before it hits Ello and blows Russian minds.

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Here's a extremely creative clip from Kiev's TNMK. "Новина" or "news" tells a wild story of a robot named "Bobot" (not kidding). So what's going here? Well, according to the band, this (translated from Google): "The song 'news' is about the information/pressure under which each of us is. From morning till evening we absorb news and not all of them positive. To sustain this pressure extremely difficult. The shooting occurred on the coast in Crimea in the field, exciting the imagination and fantasy - next to the P-2500 radio telescope near Evpatoria, the wind farm and unfinished nuclear power plant in Kazantip. The idea of the main character in the clip was made by director Maxim Ksonda. The word 'bobot' was invented by producer Alexei Moskalenko. Maxim Ksonda directed once we were preparing to shoot in the box and there was a transformer. It was like both a man and work. That's the idea - what would happen if he got up from their homes and left? Where? By the sea, because everyone wants to see the sea." The song also has something to do with wanting to save/restore the Andriyivskyy Descent. Check it below.

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