A timely joke



Speaking at the 2023 Bled Strategic Forum, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama told the following story: "I don't know if you've heard about Russia having this negotiation to synchronise the clocks because they've currently got a nine-hour difference from one side of the country to the other. The Prime Minister went to Putin and said "Mr President, we have a problem: I sent my family on holiday and called to say goodnight but it's morning there, and they're already on the beach. I called Olaf Scholz to congratulate him on his birthday, and he said it's tomorrow. I called Xi Jinping with New Year greetings and he said it's still the old year."

Putin replies "Yes, it's happened to me, I called Prigozhin's family to say I'm sorry for their loss, but the plane hadn't taken off yet".

 

 

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