"Why do you need it, you've bought brand new car a month ago!" / "Its ashtray is already full". A New Russian's son complains to his father: "Daddy, I've met a beautiful girl, but she agrees to walk with me only if I have Mercedes and 3-floor house" - "Okay, son, I'm ready to buy you Mercedes if she doesn't like your Ferrari, but not to demolish two floors of our house for this foolish girl!" A New Russian brags to his colleague: "Look at my new tie. I bought it for 500 dollars in the store over there." / "You were conned. You could have paid twice as much for the same one just across the street!" A New Russian and an old man lie injured side by side in an emergency room: "How did you get here, old fella?" / "I had an old Zaporozhets car, and I installed my war trophy Messerschmitt jet engine in it. While driving on a highway, I saw a Ferrari ahead and tried to overtake it. My speed was too high, I lost control, and crashed into a tree... And how did you get here?" / "I was driving my Ferrari when I saw a Zaporozhets overtaking me. I thought that my car might have broken down again, and had coasted to a stop. So I opened the door and stepped out..." Two New Russian friends meet up and one asks the other how he is doing: "I'm fine, but did you hear about Sergei? He was driving his new Mercedes through Petersburg and ran into a horse."/"Oh God, what happened?" / "The car was ruined, but the horse was fine. It was made of bronze." A New Russian enters musical instruments store and exits with a drum. Boasting to his friends, he tells them: "I just paid million bucks for this, the salesman told me it's a Stradivarius drum!" His friends laugh at him, saying: "You dumb-ass, Stradivarius built only string instruments..." The New Russian rushes back into the store with a murderous look in his eyes, but exits peacefully and tells them: "Nah, it's alright... The salesman told me that Stradivarius built string instruments only for dorks, for right fellas like us he built drums". Animals Jokes set in the animal kingdom also feature characters, which draw their roots in the old Slavic fairy tales, where animals are portrayed as