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 ...

Ukrainian writer Andrei Kurkov tweeted a cynically humorous weather report in February that included “chances of Russian attack 30%, feels like 95%.” YouTube Just before the Russian invasion of his ...

When does humor stop being funny and start reflecting the cracks in a society’s moral fabric? The recent harassment of Lisa, ...

Theatre has become a slow art. It takes time to write a play, and then additional time to get someone to produce it; no wonder, then, that current events are most likely to show up in cabaret and ...

When Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba was asked recently about politics in the U.S that was stalling their funding, he quipped that his country would figure out a clever way to battle the ...

W. Shedd of The Accidental Russophile writes about a Westerner's take on Soviet – and Russian – humor: “The film also makes the case that humor has dried up in Russia since the fall of communism. I'm ...