FOR RUSSIAN COMEDIANS, POLITICAL SATIRE IS NO JOKE. IT CAN NOW LAND THEM IN JAIL.
(Robyn Dixon's and Mary Ilyushina's article appeared in The Washington Post, 12/2; via the Deudge Report.) MOSCOW " A Russian video comedy troupe in a small provincial city was doing just fine. It clocked up millions of YouTube views with mischievous political satire. Then the comedians did a gag in which a drunken political boss […]