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The above images prove that “there’s life in the old dog, yet”. When we retain the ability to laugh at our foibles, we’re healthy. Pass the jug and smile…
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Friday, 24 May 2013
Monday, 6 May 2013
6 May 2013. Sergei Yolkin’s World. A Royal Breather: Four Days with the Indians
A Royal Breather: Four Days with the Indians
Sergei Yolkin
2013
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King Harald V of Norway spent four days with an Indian tribe. Sergei Yolkin has something to say about that.
6 May 2013
Sergei Yolkin
RIA-Novosti
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Sunday, 28 April 2013
28 April 2013. Sergei Yolkin’s World. Pure Coconut Milk
Pure Coconut Milk
Sergei Yolkin
2013
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To cook a dish with coconut milk, it isn’t necessary to buy that expensive canned Thai stuff. To learn how to “milk” a coconut properly, look at this caricature by Sergei Yolkin.
24 April 2013
Sergei Yolkin
RIA-Novosti
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Sunday, 21 April 2013
21 April 2013. Sergei Yolkin’s World. Cosmic Aspirations
Cosmic Aspirations
Sergei Yolkin
2013
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The RIA translator wins yet another Big Green Weenie Award. The title isn’t Dreams of Space… if it were, Yolkin would’ve used мечты, not планы. Again, the translator trashes Yolkin’s play on words (it has overtones of “Comic Aspirations”). He showed the daftness of some teen dreams by using a pompous title juxtaposed with a faintly-ridiculous caricature. On top of that, it’s best to keep the boy’s exclamation to a single word, as is it in the original… doing one’s best to keep the somewhat-sardonic comparison between the grandiose remark with the prosaic reality… you CAN do it. Is Yolkin commenting on his own youthful dreams?
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After Yuri Gagarin made the first manned space flight on 12 April 1961, millions of Soviet girls and boys dreamed of going up into space. For some of them, the dream came true. Sergei Yolkin comments on the UN General Assembly’s proclamation of 12 April as International Cosmonautics Day.
17 April 2013
Sergei Yolkin
RIA-Novosti
http://ria.ru/caricature/20130412/932270348.html
http://en.rian.ru/cartoons/20130412/180606789/Dreams-of-Space.html
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