Paul Goble
Staunton, Nov. 5 – Russian journalists keep pestering Kremlin spokesmen on whether Putin will run for re-election in 2024. According to the latest anecdote circulating in Moscow, his aides are saying that the Russian president can’t answer that because he hasn’t yet even decided whether the year 2024 itself will even take place.
That is one of the anecdotes reflecting how Russians today think that have been assembled by Moscow journalist Tatyana Pushkaryova (publizist.ru/blogs/107374/44355/-). Among the best of the rest are the following:
· Military offices will personally inform citizens about the end of mobilization when they had out notices for people to appear for service.
· Moscow has adopted a strange logic: it says to other countries that if you try to recapture land we have seized from you, then you not we are the aggressors.
· Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka has promised to repay loans he’s received from Russia by providing jackets for Russians in the case of a nuclear winter.
· One Kremlin loyalist, Oryol Governor Andrey Klychkov, says there’s no need to give soldiers fighting in Ukraine any money because there are no shops at the front and rubles are of little good in the trenches.
· Moscow finds that the principle of divide and rule works especially well if one talks about national unity.
· Komsomolskaya Pravda reports that more Americans are dying of alcoholism than are Russians, 52,000 as compared to 50,435; but the paper forgets that there are more than twice as many Americans as Russians.
· To reduce the number of poor in Russia, some in the Duma want to issue hunting licenses so that others can hunt them down and eliminate them.
· According to VTsIOM, 90 percent of birds flying south for the winter are refusing to come back to Russia.
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