Russian humour gains much of its wit from the inflection of the Russian language, allowing for plays on words and unexpected associations. As with any...

Russian political jokes are a part of Russian humour and can be grouped into the major time periods: Imperial Russia, Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia...

Russian jokes (Russian: анекдоты, romanized: anekdoty, lit. 'anecdotes') are short fictional stories or dialogs with a punch line, which commonly appear...

dying. Black humour can occasionally be related to the grotesque genre. Literary critics have associated black comedy and black humour with authors as...

raccoons stolen from Kherson by Russian zookeeper Oleg Zubkov [uk] during the Russian retreat from the city during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The animal...

countries, a popular type of humour emerged in the 1950s and 1960s featuring the fictional broadcaster called the Armenian Radio (Russian: армянское радио,...

Heart of a Dog (Russian: Собачье сердце, romanized: Sobachye serdtse) is a novella by Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov. A biting satire of Bolshevism,...

Bald–hairy (Russian: лысый — волосатый) is a common joke in Russian political discourse, referring to the empirical rule of the state leaders' succession...

Draitser, Emil. (1999). Making war, not love: gender and sexuality in Russian humour. The Breast Fetish (pg. 29). Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 0-312-22129-0...

is a Soviet–Russian comedian of Armenian and Jewish descent. In 2005 he was named among the most influential figures in contemporary Russia, in a survey...