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Poynter (blog)
April 16, 2018
NOT FROM HERE: "Chekhov is one of us — so close to today's world, to my mind, and very close to the South ... He had the sense of fate overtaking a way of life, and his Russian humor seems to me kin to the humor of a Southerner." That's from a classic Eudora Welty interview in the Paris Review. As theÃâà...
NBCNews.com
March 30, 2018
Karpichkov, 59, says that at first he thought the call was a joke rather than a threat — typically dark Russian humor. But Skripal's poisoning has put him on high alert. “Trademark FSB,” he says, referring to Russia's security agency, the Federal Security Service, the successor to the Soviet-era KGB.
Sputnik International
March 23, 2018
The Strategic Communications Center of Excellence, or StratCom, was established in 2014 as a response to Western governments' concerns over supposed Russian propaganda in Eastern Europe. The center insists that it is countering Moscow's alleged disinformation campaign, but is that really the caseÃâà...
Sputnik International
March 11, 2018
READ MORE: Comedy Gold: NATO Pans Russian Humor Contest as Nefarious Kremlin Tool. Kondrashov remarked that it was decided at the time to not make the incident publicly known. Russian President Vladimir Putin during an interview with NBC network anchor Megyn Kelly in Kaliningrad. Ãâé SputnikÃâà...
The Atlantic
February 1, 2018
JI: The Death of Stalin is in some ways a very British comedy—I felt like all that was missing was John Cleese. AI: Well, we got Michael Palin. There's an element of farce, which is a British thing. But Russian humor involves the little guy getting caught up in the machinery of the province or the inspector—which slightly chimesÃâà...
The Moscow Times
December 26, 2017
A Russian senator has warned of the slippery slope that legislators risked taking by passing a law against animal cruelty. The Federation Council struck down a bill on Tuesday that sought to ban cruelty against animals used in the training of hunting dogs and birds. Read More. Read more: Activists vs theÃâà...
Russia Beyond the Headlines
August 7, 2017
'Dear Leonid Ilyich': jokes about Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev Ãâ÷ 'The spy who couldn't surrender': 7 of Putin's jokes Ãâ÷ Encounters with Russian humor Ãâ÷ 11 epic fails in Hollywood movies that are related to Russia. If using any of Russia Beyond's content, partly or in full, always provide an active hyperlink toÃâà...
Mashable
July 19, 2017
Flynn also received $45,000 from RT for his appearance and an interview he gave at the banquet. As for what role Putin had in these ads, the response from RT included above claims that Putin "personally approved" the copy, clearly a sassy, sarcastic response right in line with the ads. Russian humor hasÃâà...
Vulture
July 18, 2017
As the specter of Russia looms over the American political scene, Stephen Colbert is launching a Russia week on The Late Show. First up: a trip to St. Petersburg, where Colbert investigated what Russian humor is like (mostly weird stop-sign jokes) and what happens on Russian late-night shows (mostlyÃâà...
Russia Beyond the Headlines
June 23, 2017
Read more: Russian pranksters bust on U.S. Congresswoman in frantic phone call. If using any of Russia Beyond's content, partly or in full, always provide an active hyperlink to the original material. russian humor media russian politicians RBTH Daily. More exciting stories and videos on Russia Beyond'sÃâà...
Russia Beyond the Headlines
March 20, 2017
NATO's Strategic Communications Center (StratCom) is sounding the alarm about the threat of Russian humor. On March 17 in Riga, Latvian specialists presented the report, "StratCom laughs: in search of an analytical network," that was the result of nine years of research. The authors conducted a contentÃâà...
BuzzFeed News
March 16, 2017
So here's a thing that happened: the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence just released a study on Russian humor. Quick point of clarification: NATO StratCom COE, as the group is known, is Ãâ÷ View this video on YouTube Ãâ÷ youtube.com. Quick point of clarification: NATO StratCom COE,Ãâà...
Sputnik International
March 15, 2017
Comedy Gold: NATO Pans Russian Humor Contest as Nefarious Kremlin Tool ... At least, that's what the Latvia-based NATO Strategic Communications Center of Excellence (Stratcom) outlined in a recent publication that slammed a popular Russian humor TV program as a “tool of strategic communication.
