A Russian politician threatens a group of comedians to be sent to the front for making a joke about his doctorate

Dmitri Rogozin, former deputy prime minister and former head of the Russian Federal Space Agency, threatened to send a group of young comedians on the Ukraine front, after their doctoral thesis in a popular television show, The Moscow Times reports.

Rogozin said he was sent a clip from a recent broadcast show KVN comedy, in which the teams compete for the title of “the most fun and inventive club” in Russia.

In the sketch that aroused the anger, a member of the team from St. Petersburg joked, saying that Rogozin wrote in his thesis that “the cosmos does not change with a chick.”

“We will take them in the first line and hate them success in battle,” Rogozin wrote on his Telegram channel, referring to the comedians. “And when they return, we will laugh together with their unhappy, naughty and vulgar joke.”

Rogozin, a nationalist politician and a declared supporter of Russia's invasion in Ukraine, was the head of the Roscosmos space agency from 2018 to 2022. Previously, he held the position of Deputy Prime Minister and sent to Russia to NATO.

During his career, he obtained a doctorate in engineering, with emphasis on weapon theory.

It is not clear how serious Rogozin intends to implement his threat, The Moscow Times reports. In his post, he claimed that he knows what military enrollment office, the members of the KVN team are registered and said he was waiting for the name of the one who wrote the jokes, which he described as a “talent without talent”.

“We will teach them everything, including the sense of humor,” Rogozin wrote.

Since the beginning of the large -scale invasion of Russia in Ukraine in 2022, sending young people on the front as a punishment for what Russian officials catalog as crimes has become an increasingly common threat.