How "new Russian sensations" are made Illustration: Peter Sarukhanov / "New Gazeta" On the television slang, “pushing” is called plots in which there are a lot of different, often motley episodes on one topic. “Hell of Pesyanka” is when completely crazy versions, scraps of facts, gossip, rumors, comments of imaginary experts, and the staff of operational filming are dumped into one pile, combining them with an equally crazy theme.