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Russia: Bloggers Mock the Pronounciation of the Russian Sports Ministry

Categories: Eastern & Central Europe, Russia, Humor, Sport, RuNet Echo

Numerous bloggers are both excited and sarcastic about Russia winning World Cup 2018 [1]. Besides many jokes on unpreparedness of Russian infrastructure [2] [RUS], a lot of people mock Vitaliy Mutko, Russian sports ministry, and his “typical Russian accent” speech [3]. User zagda even posted a fake Cyrillic transcript [4] of the speech stressing on the poor knowledge of English of the ministry.