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So, Ivan Denisovich walks into a bar…

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Earlier I had written about the Russian aversion to seriousness, and now there is a pertinent article in the FT about the fine time-honoured tradition of Soviet gallows humour and its apogee, the Political Anekdot.

Have a read

(Courtesy of the ever-intrepid Bradley Hope, founder-editor of the New York Moon)

 

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Vadim Nikitin

Vadim Nikitin was born in Murmansk, Russia and grew up there and in Britain. He graduated from Harvard University with a thesis on American democracy promotion in Russia. Vadim's articles about Russia have appeared in The Nation, Dissent Magazine, and The Moscow Times. He is currently researching a comparative study of post-Soviet and post-Apartheid nostalgia.
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USSR; US-Russia Relations; Culture and Society; Media; Civil Society; Politics; Espionage; Oligarchs

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