Events of the Week in Cartoons by Sergei Yolkin: 9-13 September 2013
Sergei Yolkin
2013
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In the above cartoon, in the original title, Yolkin used a non-standard word, триумфаторы (triumfatory), which isn’t the standard word for “victor”, which is победитель (pobeditel), or for “champion”, which is защитник (zashchitnik). Ergo, to keep the somewhat tongue-in-cheek pompous flavour of the title, I chose a similarly non-standard English word, “overcomer” to translate it. After all, “triumpher” doesn’t sound good at all, and I don’t think that it’s good English in any case.
The American righties are going to make much of Roizman’s victory, as he’s a political ally of the greedster slug Prokhorov (thank God, the Civic Platform pro-West collaborators won NO seats in the RF Gosduma, and they only have six seats in regional dumas out of 3,787 available seats). Let’s tell the truth… he only got 30 percent of the vote in a multi-candidate race… yet, Navalny’s pukes aren’t calling for a second round in this election! The zapadniki are charlatans and fraudsters… just like their Western Corporate sponsors and paymasters, I’d say…
By the way, the so-called “Ig Nobel Prizes” are a product of Harvard, Radcliffe, and MIT… all bastions of the American Establishment. As I say, shitbirds of a feather flock together. That is, it’s a not-so-subtle attack on Aleksandr Grigoryevich… take it with a BLOCK of salt… caveat lector!
BMD
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Sergei Yolkin looked at the “champions” of the week… Mayor Sobyanin won re-election in Moscow and Yekaterinburg elected Yevgeni Roizman as Mayor, and Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko received the Ig Nobel Peace Prize.
13 September 2013
Sergei Yolkin
RIA-Novosti
http://ria.ru/caricature/20130913/963035554.html
Voices from Russia 
VTsIOM Poll Sez Russians Most Trust Nazarbayev and Lukashenko of Post-Soviet Leaders
Tags: Alexander Lukashenko, Belarus, Customs Union, EU, Eurasian Economic Community, Eurasian Union, European Union, Freedom House, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Nursultan Nazarbayev, Opinion poll, political commentary, politics, Polls, Public Policy Polling, Russia, Russian, United States, USA, Viktor Yanukovich, Viktor Yanukovych, VTSIOM
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A poll released Tuesday revealed that Russians rated Presidents Aleksandr Lukashenko of Belarus and Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan as the most trustworthy leaders of the former Soviet states. The head of the Russian Federation wasn’t included in the poll carried out by the all-Russian Public Opinion Research Centre (VTsIOM). Forty-one percent of respondents selected Lukashenko as the most trusted leader among non-Russian figures in the SNG. Amongst the remaining ten heads of state, only two scored higher than 5 percent… Nazarbayev had 33 percent, and Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich had 10 percent. Russians also rated the two countries, which are part of the Eurasian Economic Union (EvrAsES) Customs Union trade bloc, as Russia’s most dependable partners. Freedom House rated all but two SNG members… Kyrgyzstan and Moldova… “Not Free” on their index {Freedom House can kiss my ass. They call everyone who opposes Western corporate rape of their countries “Not Free”. They’re nothing but obsequious running dogs of the American oligarchs: editor}. The leaders of Kyrgyzstan and Moldova, which Freedom House describes as “Partly Free” {because Kyrgyzstan foolishly allows US forces on its territory and Moldova sucks up to the EU: editor} scored two percent apiece in VTsIOM’s trustworthiness survey. VTsIOM questioned 1,600 people across Russia in mid-November; the margin of error of the poll was +/- 3.4 percent.
11 December 2013
RIA-Novosti
http://en.ria.ru/world/20131211/185427248/Belarusian-Kazakh-Leaders-Most-Trusted-of-Post-Soviet-Leaders-.html