Even before Donald Trump was facing impeachment over his dealings with Ukraine, his indifference toward that country’s fate was a punch line in neighboring Russia. Vladimir Putin is calling the White ...

Watched more than 1.3 million times since it was posted by Russian comedy group “Plyushki” to YouTube last month, the video comes with a disclaimer. “Some of the jokes are based on wordplay and do not ...

In 1991, a simple line appeared in Broom, a Lithuanian satire and humor journal. “A shortest joke: Communism,” it said. A one-liner to celebrate the collapse of the Soviet Union. Four years since ...

Grief is as central to Russian theater as realism, complex characters, and a gun on the wall, introduced early on. But Russian theater has another side. A silly side. Humor is, after all, a common and ...