Staunton, Dec. 31 – New Year’s provides yet another occasion for an upsurge in anecdotes among Russians. Perhaps the bitterest reflection among them this time around is the certainty many of them are expressing that 2024 will certainly be better not than 2023 but rather 2025.
That is just one of the stories Russians are sharing with one another that capture what is going on in that country. These have been assembled by Moscow journalist Tatyana Pushkaryova (publizist.ru/blogs/107374/47444/-). Among the best of the rest in her latest list are the following:
· Most Russian letters to Santa Claus this year have turned out to be denunciations of another grandfather.
· In North Korea too, it is also winter and the New Year; but the New Year is the only thing new there. Otherwise everything is the same.
· In the upcoming Year of the Dragon, Duma deputies have promised to pass only draconian laws.
· Russians watching New Year’s eve programs on television divide into three groups: those who ask “who is this anyway?” those who point out that another actor is “acting like a patriot,” and those who shout in surprise “On my God, is he still alive?”
· On December 31, 1999, Boris Yeltsin announced his resignation and the transfer of powers to Vladimir Putin. If only Putin would do so this December 31.
· In peaceful Belgrade, thousands are demanding the resignation of Putin puppet Aleksandar Vucic. In Belgorod, after the bombing, thousands are silently waiting for the New Year’s speech of the man behind these bombings. And the difference between the two paces is only two letters!
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