It's great to learn something new about culture of another country.
Internet memes became new form of folklore.
This post will introduce to you most popular memes in russia about russia.

GIF source

We love foreign memes, but also have own.

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Prime Minister of Russian - Dmitry Medvedev

Sometimes he "allow" yourself to yourself sleep on the conferences. Last year he went from good picture of a sleeping angel to a engry monster after publishing video on youtube bout his corruption affairs.

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A witness from Fryazino - свидетель из Фрязино.

This meme from 2006. We see a man in a white adidas trousers and black leather jacket. It's a nostalgia about 90s, when "cool" guys wore this.

Unfortunately he died in 2015.

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Lukashenko and potato

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Lukashenko is a president of Belarus from 1994 - 23 years +.
Euro countries called him "Europe's last dictatorship"))

Why do potato? Belarus is assotiated with this vegetable.
If you type on google "картошка и белорусы" (potato an belarusians) then ...

HALF of the Belarusians can't live without potato
Many eat potato with bread. Statistic says that one average belarusian eats 860 kg of potato/year. We are #1 in this. Russians eat, fo instance, only 250 kg/year.

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Son/daughter of your mom's friend is better

Your Crusade	Crusade of Son/daughter of your mom's girlfriend

"А вот у Маши сын женился ..." "А вот у Нины дочь машину ей купила ..."

If your mother is complaing about you, she may say that son/daughter of her friend is more successful than you are - have a car, home, merried, bought a jet plane ...whatever. It's famous manipulation here (Russia, Ukraine and Belarus).

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Very bad music.

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Russian Post - Почта России

This is the national postal operator of Russia. People joke about this

• It's inefficient postal service
• Postal workers can steal your package, or destroy it.
• Your package could travel to you for months.

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