By AFP - Agence France Presse December 11, 2020 Print Article
Not laughing: An Italian student wears a mask bearing the face of Matteo Salvini, leader of the far-right Lega party Filippo MONTEFORTE Text size
Italian humour
A book about far-right Italian leader Matteo Salvini entitled Why Salvini Deserves Trust, Respect and Admiration is topping the country s bestseller lists.
Open the cover of the weighty-looking treatise by political analyst Alex Green and you find 110 blank pages.
Salvini, whose so-called reverse Midas touch has seen his party lose two regional polls this year, has been unusually tight-lipped about the tome. Its publishers, however, are laughing all the way to the bank.
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A file photo shows a cat in the basement of the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg on October 14, 2015. (AFP/Olga Maltseva) London- Asharq Al-Awsat
The Russian Hermitage boasts about sheltering over 50 cats and pampering them with food, a dedicated washing machine, and great healthcare. The cats even have a page on Wikipedia like influencers.
The little animals are used to the museum s visitors who treat them with love. Among those visitors was a French man who left a generous sum of money in his will for the cats living in the basement of the State Hermitage Museum in Russia. The museum is home to three million works of art, artifacts, and sculptures spread across buildings including the Winter Palace. According to the Hermitage s staff, these cats know the displayed works more than experts.