16 June 2013. Sergei Yolkin’s World. Minzdrav Snatches Away Victims from Death

Minzdrav Snatches Away Victims from Death

Sergei Yolkin

2013

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In Russian usage, “Minzdrav” is an acronym for Ministry of Health (in Russian, of course). It’s common coinage in the Russian language… for instance, Minoborony is the Ministry of Defence, and Minyust is the Ministry of Justice. American equivalents are POTUS, SecDef, and DoD. Bureaucratese IS international, after all. In Orwell’s 1984, the reader finds the Russian format for acronym formation in the Newspeak Ingsoc, Minitrue, and Miniluv (amongst others). It’s not sinister in intent… although it seems that way at times. It’s just meant to save keystrokes (no lie).

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Health Minister Veronika Skvortsova estimates that the new anti-smoking law could save 150,000 to 200,000 Russian lives per year. Here’s how Sergei Yolkin sees it.

28 May 2013

Sergei Yolkin

RIA-Novosti

http://ria.ru/caricature/20130528/939880831.html

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Sergei Yolkin’s World: New Ranks… New Gobbledegook

New Ranks… New Gobbledegook

Sergei Yolkin

2011

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To make sense of this, let Tyotya Vara explain it all for you. On the left, you’ll see three officers, starting with “Nachshtab”… “Chief of Staff”. In the centre, is “Kombat”… “Battalion Commander”. On the right, is “Starlei”… “Senior Lieutenant”. The poor sod on the extreme right is saying, “I guess that makes me a ‘Glavser’ (Chief Sergeant)”.

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Here’s a song by Lyube… KomBat (Battalion Commander)… they dedicated it to the VOV vets

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Nikolai Pankov, the State Secretary and Deputy Defence Minister, told reporters that the rank of Chief Sergeant will be instituted in the Russian forces. A similar position exists in the US forces, where senior NCOs coordinate and monitor junior NCOs, as well as advising senior officers, all the way up to the Secretary of Defence and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Pankov pointed up, “This isn’t going to be put in place today or tomorrow. We know that we have to introduce such a position, but we have to thoroughly check out all our options first”.

7 October 2011

Sergei Yolkin

RIA-Novosti

http://ria.ru/caricature/20111007/451655931.html

Editor’s Note:

Just shows to go ya that Kilroy lives… in the Russian forces as much as in ours. Lighten up… they’re not supermen; they’re not bunglers. They’re ordinary sorts doing a job… just like our boys. I’d think that “Joe Bloggs” and “Ivan Ivanovich” would get on just fine with a pivo or two…

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