21 May 2013. Ura! It’s Polar Exploration Day!

Ura! It’s Polar Exploration Day!

Sergei Yolkin

2013

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RIA put this up on the English side of the site today, and they lazily posted the Russian version, without any edits. On the banner on the Polar explorers ice floe, it said “Polar Station” in Russian, so, I Englished it as “North Pole Station-40″, the current drift station. I used PhotoShop Elements, nothing fancy, so, it’s clear that the RIA staffer could have done the same. Hell, I upped the canvas size and cloned in additional seascape and waves… so, don’t tell me that it was difficult…

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Russia marked 21 May as polar Exploration Day for the first time. This day was when the first Polar Drifting Ice Station, North Pole-1, commenced operations in 1937. Sergei Yolkin gives us his take on the affair.

21 May 2013

Sergei Yolkin

RIA-Novosti

http://ria.ru/caricature/20130521/938600644.html

Click here for an image gallery, and here for a vid in English

 

21 May 2013. Sergei Yolkin’s World. Curb “Golden Parachutes!”

Curb “Golden Parachutes!”

Sergei Yolkin

2013

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Sergei Yolkin gives us his estimation of a bill submitted to the RF Gosduma to limit “golden parachutes”, benefits paid to top managers of state enterprises after dismissal.

21 May 2013

Sergei Yolkin

RIA-Novosti

http://ria.ru/caricature/20130521/938549938.html

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18 May 2013. Sergei Yolkin’s World. The Events of the Week in Cartoons… 13 to 17 May 2013

The Events of the Week in Cartoons… 13 to 17 May 2013

Sergei Yolkin

2013

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The original in Russian had the CIA guy saying “No-o-o-o” in English, with the other two saying “Het” (Nyet) in Russian… just thought that you’d like to know that…

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Sergei Yolkin summed up events that have been cooking for some time… the USA eliminated the Russian ice hockey team in the quarter-finals of World Cup, the FSB nicked a CIA agent in Moscow for espionage, and the maintenance man will turn off the hot water.

17 May 2013

Sergei Yolkin

RIA-Novosti

http://ria.ru/caricature/20130517/937915697.html

17 May 2013. Sergei Yolkin’s World. Old-School Spy Mania

Old-School Spy Mania

Sergei Yolkin

2013

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Yolkin captures the utter ridiculousness of this whole affair by showing the “spy” wearing an obvious blonde wig. Nonetheless, Ryan Fogle was an overly-ambitious over-educated little swine caught in his own machinations. This was so derisively-amateurish that it’s apparent that Fogle never had formal training in spycraft. He played right into the hands of the anti-American faction amongst the siloviki. Well, look at the bright side of it all… it would’ve been WORSE if Wet Willy had been elected… Romney’s ignorant bluster would’ve done nothing but deepen the conundrum. America dares to lecture the world…

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Sergei Yolkin takes a sardonic look at the arrest in Moscow of an American spy, nicked during “a clumsy recruitment” of a Russian special services operative. The cops seized wigs, money, and instructions for recruitment from the alleged CIA agent.

17 May 2013

Sergei Yolkin

RIA-Novosti

http://ria.ru/caricature/20130517/937820535.html