Tweeting Russian politics and political culture
At the end of November, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev started a Twitter account and began posting frequent Tweets.Shortly after that, a satirical imitation of the presidential Tweets began showing up. It's an old tradition in Russia ("laughing through the tears") to make jokes about what seems hopeless. Unfortunately, for those of who don't read Russian, the satire is not translated. There is, however, Julia Ioffe's article in Foreign Policy, Meet the Persident: In surreal Russia, fake presidential tweets are much more relevant than the real ones.. (Thanks to Renee Montagne of National Public Radio for the tip on this one.)
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