The joke that Prime Minister Edi Rama showed by ironizing the death of the leader of "Wagner", Yevgeny Prigozhin, has attracted great attention around the world.
Many foreign media have reported it, while Rama's video showing the barsaleta at the Bled Strategic Forum in Slovenia has been viewed over 1 million times on social networks.
A Twitter user named "Carlos" has shared Rama's video, receiving hundreds of thousands of reactions, as he calls the head of the Albanian government "based", a slang word that characterizes a man who is direct and himself.
But what was Rama's barsaleta for Prigozhin? Rama told how the Prime Minister of Russia complained to Putin about the time difference in Russia.
"Mr. President, we have a problem, I sent the family on vacation and called them to say "good morning" but it was morning and they were at the beach. I took Olaf Scholz to wish him a happy birthday, he told me it's the next day. I took Xi Jinping to wish him R Year, he told me it was still the old year.
And Putin says: I know it happened to me too. I called Prigozhin's family to express my condolences for the plane crash, but they told me that the plane had not taken off yet."
PRIME MINISTER OF ALBANIA BASADÍSSIM pic.twitter.com/cFV5hJPxj9
— Carlos (@trenesmania) September 2, 2023