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...
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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...
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Russian jokes (Russian: анекдоты, romanized: anekdoty, lit. 'anecdotes') are short fictional stories or dialogs with a punch line, which commonly appear...
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Black comedy (redirect from Black humour)
dying. Black humour can occasionally be related to the grotesque genre. Literary critics have associated black comedy and black humour with authors as...
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Raccoon of Kherson (category Russian humour)
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...
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Radio Yerevan joke (category Russian humour)
countries, a popular type of humour emerged in the 1950s and 1960s featuring the fictional broadcaster called the Armenian Radio (Russian: армянское радио,...
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Heart of a Dog (category Russian humour)
Heart of a Dog (Russian: Собачье сердце, romanized: Sobachye serdtse) is a novella by Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov. A biting satire of Bolshevism,...
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Bald–hairy (category Russian humour)
Bald–hairy (Russian: лысый — волосатый) is a common joke in Russian political discourse, referring to the empirical rule of the state leaders' succession...
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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...
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Yevgeny Petrosyan (category Russian humour)
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...
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