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Dec. 12th, 2019
Russian TV axes show starring Ukraine's leader after Putin joke
A Russian television channel has abruptly cancelled a sitcom starring Ukraine’s president after an allusion to a crude joke about Vladimir Putin was aired in Russia’s far east.....
In the season’s premiere Zelenskiy, playing the role of Ukraine’s new president, is selecting a new timepiece to match those worn by other leaders.
Putin, he is told, wears a Hublot.
“Putin’s a Hublot?” Zelenskiy responds.
The word Hublot resembles another that translates, less crudely, to the word “dick” in Russian’s swearing sub-language known as Mat. The phrase “Putin’s a dick”, using the swearword, became a popular slogan in Ukraine after the outbreak of the conflict in south-east Ukraine, and could be heard at anti-Putin rallies and seen in graffiti dabbed on walls across Ukraine
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a simple map showing which parts of Russia had and had not heard “Putin is a Hublot”.