Russian political jokes as a basis for research into changes in how Vladimir Putin is perceived by society
Journal: Russian Journal of Communication
Year: 2020

The aim of this paper is to analyse jokes about Vladimir Putin and show how people’s perception of his actions and behaviour changed between 2014 and 2018. The annexation of Crimea by Russia in March 2014 marks the starting point of this analysis, and it ends in December 2018, at the end of the year in which Putin was elected President of Russia for the fourth time. More than 350 jokes from the portal anekdot.ru have been divided up thematically and analysed using two typologies: the kind of jok