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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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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Raccoon of Kherson (category Russian humour)
raccoons stolen from Kherson by Russian zookeeper Oleg Zubkov during the Russian retreat from the city during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The animal...
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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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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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Chastushka (category Russian humour)
Chastushka (Russian: частушка, IPA: [tɕɪsˈtuʂkə], plural: chastushki) is a traditional type of short Russian humorous folk song with high beat frequency...
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Heart of a Dog (category Russian humour)
Heart of a Dog (Russian: Собачье сердце, romanized: Sobach'ye serdtse, IPA: [sɐˈbatɕjɪ ˈsʲertsə]) is a novella by Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov. A biting...
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Russian culture (Russian: Культура России, romanized: Kul'tura Rossii, IPA: [kʊlʲˈturə rɐˈsʲiɪ]) has been formed by the nation's history, its geographical...
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Ostap Bender (category Russian humour)
a catchphrase in the Russian language. His exploits have been enjoyed by readers throughout the Soviet times and in modern Russia. In post-Soviet times...
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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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British scientists (meme) (category Russian humour)
In modern Russian culture, "British scientists" (Russian: Британские учёные, Britanskiye uchyonyye) is a running joke used as an ironic reference to absurd...
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Obid Asomov (category Russian humour)
Obid Asomov rahbarlik lavozimiga tayinlandi "Скончался Обид Асомов" (in Russian). Газета.uz. December 14, 2018. Retrieved December 14, 2018. Указ Президента...
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Moscow-Petushki (category Russian humour)
to Russian classical literature and to Soviet cliches. Literary critic Lev Oborin [ru] draws a parallel of the novel with another prominent Russian satirical...
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Humorina (category Russian humour)
"Humorina 2019". omr.gov.ua (in Russian). 2019. "Parade "Humorina-2017 foto"". USI (in Russian). 2017. Humorina website (in Russian) Esperanto-Humorina Archived...
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Hang noodles on the ears (category Russian humour)
To hang noodles on the ears (Russian: вешать лапшу на уши, veshat' lapshu na ushi) is a Russian-language idiomatic expression that means to deceive or...
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Humour in translation can be caused by translation errors, because of irregularities and discrepancies between certain items that translators attempt to...
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Krokodil (category Russian humour)
Krokodil (Russian: Крокодил, IPA: [krəkɐˈdʲil] , lit. 'crocodile') was a satirical magazine published in the Soviet Union. The first issue was published...
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Redneck joke Ribaldry Riddle joke Roman jokes Romanian humour Running gag Russian jokes Russian political jokes Satire Sardarji joke Self-referential humor...
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Rayok (category Russian humour)
A rayok (Russian: раёк, IPA: [rɐˈjɵk], lit. "small paradise") was a Russian fairground peep show. Performed using a box with pictures viewed through magnifying...
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Children of Lieutenant Schmidt (category Russian humour)
The Children of Lieutenant Schmidt (Russian: Дети лейтенанта Шмидта), a fictional society of swindlers, appeared in the 1931 satirical novel The Little...
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oppression of non-Russian nations and non-Orthodox Christians within the Russian Empire. For much the same reason, many non-Russians, notably Latvians...
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Viktor Chernomyrdin (category Articles with Russian-language sources (ru))
(Russian: Ви́ктор Степа́нович Черномы́рдин, IPA: [ˈvʲiktər sʲtʲɪˈpanəvʲɪtɕ tɕɪrnɐˈmɨrdʲɪn]; 9 April 1938 – 3 November 2010) was a Soviet and Russian politician...
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Antiformalist Rayok (category Russian humour)
Antiformalist Rayok (Russian: Антиформалистический раёк), also known as Learner's Manual, without opus number, is a satirical cantata for four voices...
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Humorism (redirect from The four humours)
Rupert Thomson's 2005 novel Divided Kingdom. Classical element Comedy of humours Three Doshas of Ayurveda Five temperaments Mitama Wu Xing (Five Principles...
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Jewish humor (redirect from Jewish Humour)
See Russian jokes in general, or more specifically Rabinovich jokes, Russian Jewish jokes, Russian political jokes; also History of the Jews in Russia and...
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Theories of humor (redirect from Philosophy of humour)
S2CID 14068723. Berlyne, D. E. (1972). "Humour and its kin", in J. H. Goldstein & P. E. McGhee (Eds.), The Psychology of Humour (pp. 43–60). New York: Academic...
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The Death of Stalin (category CS1 Russian-language sources (ru))
Stalin] (in Russian). Russian Ministry of Culture. 23 January 2018. Archived from the original on 23 June 2018. Retrieved 22 June 2018. "Russian Culture Ministry...
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