Sentence examples for russian satire from inspiring English sources

He added: "Renard was also a real Russian satire.

Suhayla El-Bushra relocates Nikolai Erdman's Russian satire to the dirty streets of London in The Suicide that previews in the Lyttelton from tonight.

A absurdist sendup of Soviet life, "Life With an Idiot" followed boldly in the rich tradition of Russian satire best exemplified operatically by Shostakovich's "The Nose," a work that has attracted significant attention of late.

So it's only natural that Russian political satire flourishes in the only medium that isn't meticulously micromanaged by the Kremlin's puppetmasters: the internet.

It has been read as a gloss on Russian autocracy, a satire on intellectuals and an allegory about Chekhov's own angst.

By Christopher Buckley The New Yorker, March 8 , 1999P. 37 SHOUTS & MURMURS satire of Russian politics lists possible successors to the ailing President Boris Yeltsin.

Unlike Matthew Bourne, whose own unconventional "Swan Lake" transformed that 19th-century Russian classic into a satire on contemporary England, "Birdbrain" had almost no plot.

Mr. Vitorgan has worked at the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater, one of the city's best, and dabbled in opposition activities by directing a movie, "Election Day," which was a satire of Russian electoral politics.

The satire of Russian authorities, the Orthodox church and the power structure in Russia is vicious and unrelenting, and even the victims are not particularly sympathetic characters, driven to drink, infidelities and anguished outbursts.

Serebrennikov's approach is also more powerful because it is in the best Russian traditions of political satire and subtle mockery of the powerful — summed up by a phrase which translates to English as "middle finger in the pocket," the rough equivalent of flipping people the bird as soon as they turn their back.

After New York Magazine's Michael Idov read The Nurse and the Novelist, a nifty piece of satire by Russian émigré Anya Ulinich, he assumed the not-so-gentle send-up of "a straw man of an American writer making a fortune off whimsical novels about Soviet Jews" was chiefly directed at Foer.