There is a meta-joke that, since the coming of Putin to power, all the classic jokes about a smart yet rude boy called Вовочка (Vovochka, diminutive from Vladimir) have suddenly become political jokes.
Postoji mega-šala , budući da, je dolazak Putina na vlast, sve klasične viceve o pametnom, nepristojnom dečku zvanom Vovočka (Vovochka, smanjeno od Vladimira) prebacio u političke viceve.