Is some Russian folk music Greek/Byzantine influenced?

[Sikeliot]

I have finally begun trying to find Russian folk music, and much of it sounds Greek influenced.

First link is Russian folk music synthesized on the computer by an American but it sounds Greek-like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4iDAqTglzQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn06W-iBfkQ

8:18 here and 16:05.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVFlKpqygH4

[Shah-Jehan]

Moscow is the third Rome.

[Sikeliot]

Moscow is the third Rome.

So Russian music, culture, etc. is Greek influenced.

[Sacrificed Ram]

Whole East Europe uses persian melodic scale.

[Sikeliot]

All East Europe use persian melodic scale.

My assumption is music like that originated in Greece and spread into the Slavic regions and even southern Italy. It also sounds a bit like some Sicilian and south Italian music. So I think it has to be Byzantine.

[Sacrificed Ram]

My assumption is music like that originated in Greece and spread into the Slavic regions and even southern Italy. It also sounds a bit like some Sicilian and south Italian music. So I think it has to be Byzantine.

Byzantines had long time intimacy with persians. Also the superior persian culture impacted heavy in arabs and turks.

[Sikeliot]

Byzantines had long time intimacy with persians. Also the superior persian culture impacted heavy in arabs and turks.

That isn't my question. I want to know why the Russian folk music in those links sounds similar to Greek.

[Râman Hvâstra]

My assumption is music like that originated in Greece and spread into the Slavic regions and even southern Italy. It also sounds a bit like some Sicilian and south Italian music. So I think it has to be Byzantine.

Thats foolish to say. All IE populations had different variations of the same ancestral tones and rythm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSpL-Lk8R7s

What about this one in the video,how it sounds like? I havent heard it anywhere else, seems like something original.
Doesnt sound like greek to me.

[Sacrificed Ram]

That isn't my question. I want to know why the Russian folk music in those links sounds similar to Greek.

Balalaika has some sound similarities with Bouzuki, and similar melodies and rhythms will result similar sound. And this low quality synthetization will confuse the sound of instruments.

[Sikeliot]

Thats foolish to say. All IE populations had different variations of the same ancestral tones and rythm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSpL-Lk8R7s

What about this one in the video,how it sounds like? I havent heard it anywhere else, seems like something original.
Doesnt sound like greek to me.

I didn't mean ALL Russian music. But I have also heard Jewish music from Poland, Ukrainian music, etc. with the same sound. So I figured it had to be of Byzantine origin and spread north.