In 2020, Russia’s Memes Went Worldwide
In Putin’s case, with great power comes great meme-ability. Twitter, Facebook, TikTok / MT
The world may have been imploding around us in 2020, but at least we had the Russian internet to keep us entertained.
This year, there was no shortage of witty, irreverent and just plain odd memes from Russia perhaps because in lockdown Russians had more time on their hands to work their meme magic.
A few of them even spread beyond Russia’s borders, a testament to the power of memes to unify people across cultures. Or maybe the rest of the world simply caught up with that Russian skill of keeping despair at bay with humor, of finding lemonade in lemons.
Deep in the state of Mato Grosso, in the heart of Brazil’s vast Xingu National park, the inhabitants of the Indigenous village of Typa Typa can be heard day and night.
From their palm-thatched huts, perched on the southern banks of the Tuatuari river, some five kilometres (three miles) from the Leonardo Villas-Boas Post in the Upper Xingu, the Yawalapiti people of the circular village are mourning the death of their ancestral leader.
Chief Aritana Yawalapiti, 71, led his ethnic group for five decades and fiercely defended its traditions, lands and culture. For his family and Xingu supporters, he was a “living library” of the Yawalapiti people, one of the first tribes from the Arawak family lineage to have arrived in the region around 1100 AD.
A year of the pandemic, in 26 photos Susie Neilson A man looks out of the window of his home during the coronavirus pandemic. It s been almost a year since the Chinese government first notified the World Health Organisation about the novel coronavirus. Since then, more than 78 million people have contracted COVID-19, and more than 1.7 million have died. Here are some of the most striking photos of the pandemic s impact so far.
Almost a year ago, on December 31, 2019, the Chinese government notified the World Health Organisation about a cluster of 41 patients with a mysterious pneumonia in Wuhan.
Now, over 78 million people worldwide have been diagnosed with COVID-19, according to Johns Hopkins University. More than 1.7 million have died.
Who, in their right mind, saw it coming?
After a relatively quiet, rather “normal” first quarter, we all learned of a “new normal” that would reshape just about every aspect of daily life for those lucky enough survive the global pandemic known as COVID-19.
But first a little happiness arrived before the sorrow.
Following the New Year’s celebrations and promise to commit to resolutions, the first baby of the year was born at UPMC Susquehanna.
The baby arrived shortly before 5 a.m. Jan. 2. The story, aptly written by veteran newspaper man Philip A. Holmes, the lead police and fire reporter for the Sun-Gazette, described how Dusty Harkey was 37 weeks pregnant when she walked into the Williamsport Regional Medical Center’s Birthplace.
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