Chernomyrdinka

Even when they sounded funny, people have found a deeper meaning in them.

[4] They were produced after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, when country leadership, including Chernomyrdin, attempted to speak "not from the paper sheet" (in other words, not in a scripted fashion) and without bureaucratisms typical of the late Soviet Union.

[5] Russian journalist Dmitry Travin [ru] writes that chernomyrdinki often reflected the spirit of the epoch better than thick books of writers and philosophers.

[6] Russian writer and satirist Victor Shenderovich is quoted to say that he envies Chernomyrdin: a writer toils hard, but Chernomyrdin just opens his mouth, and here you go: a brilliant quote is here.

[7] The Orenburg gas processing plant [ru], whose first director was Chernomyrdin, on the occasion of its 45th anniversary opened a park dedicated to Chernomyrdin and adorned it with plaques with chernomyrdinki.