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  2. Russian jokes - Wikipedia

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    Russian joke culture includes a series of categories with fixed settings and characters. Russian jokes treat topics found everywhere in the world, including sex, politics, spousal relations, or mothers-in-law. This article discusses Russian joke subjects that are particular to Russian or Soviet culture.

  3. Russian humour - Wikipedia

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    The most popular form of Russian humour consists of jokes (анекдоты — anekdoty), which are short stories with a punch line. Typical of Russian joke culture is a series of categories with fixed and highly familiar settings and characters. Surprising effects are achieved by an endless variety of plots and plays on words. [14]

  4. Culture of Russia - Wikipedia

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    Russian jokes, the most popular form of Russian humour, are short fictional stories or dialogues with a punch line. Russian joke culture features a series of categories with fixed and highly familiar settings and characters. Surprising effects are achieved by an endless variety of plots.

  5. It's no joke: how Russian comedians try to stay relevant in ...

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    Cracking jokes about Russia's president is a sensitive business these days in Moscow's comedy clubs, where performers say they walk a fine line in a country at war. "On the whole, you can joke ...

  6. Yakov Smirnoff - Wikipedia

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    In Russia, the agent always finds you." [21] Despite Smirnoff rarely using the joke format himself, he has often been directly associated with it throughout pop culture, including episodes of both Family Guy [27] and The Simpsons. [25]

  7. Russian political jokes - Wikipedia

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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.In the Soviet period political jokes were a form of social protest, mocking and criticising leaders, the system and its ideology, myths and rites. [1]

  8. Radio Yerevan joke - Wikipedia

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    Some however, are more specific to one culture, such as elephant jokes that were an American fad in the 1960s. In the Soviet Union, a peculiar type of such jokes appeared that involved not the narrator but a fictional entity called the Armenian Radio. [1] Despite the name, at the beginning, the Armenian Radio jokes were an ethnic Russian ...

  9. British scientists (meme) - Wikipedia

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    In modern Russian culture, "British scientists" (Russian: Британские учёные, Britanskiye uchyonyye) is a running joke used as an ironic reference to absurd news reports about scientific discoveries: "British scientists managed to establish that..." It has also become a Russian internet meme.