2013
Sergei Yolkin looks at some of the events of the week: the USA teetered on the verge of a financial precipice, the court sentenced Navalny to probation, and burglars nicked stuff from a Russian diplomat’s home in The Hague.
18 October 2013
RIA-Novosti
http://ria.ru/caricature/20131018/971061836.html
2013
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!
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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
RIA-Novosti
2013
Sergei Yolkin muses about the “middles” of this week… in the midst of gold medals at the Universiade in Kazan, the middle of 2013, and in the middle between freedom and prison in the Navalny verdict.
19 July 2013
RIA-Novosti
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18 October 2013. Sergei Yolkin’s World. Events of the Week in Cartoons by Sergei Yolkin: 16-20 September 2013
Tags: Aleksei Navalny, Alexei Navalny, Alexey Navalny, cartoons, editorial cartoons, John McCain, Navalny, political commentary, politics, Russia, Russian, Russian Railways, Sergei Yolkin, United States, USA, Vladimir Putin, Vladimir Yakunin, Word play
Events of the Week in Cartoons by Sergei Yolkin: 16-20 September 2013
Sergei Yolkin
2013
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The “Lake” Co-op is a real estate scandal involving Vladimir Yakunin, the head of Russian Railways, a close friend of Vladimir Putin. It involves a chi-chi upscale dacha settlement for siloviki in Priozersky Raion of Leningrad Oblast. All of the owners are big wigs in the government and business. Of course, Yakunin’s spinning the situation like mad, but some of the mud’s sticking, especially, after Navalny picked up the story.
Yolkin uses one of his patented plays on words in the McCain entry. И это чистая правда.ru can mean, “That’s really in Pravda.ru”, or, “That’s absolutely true”… you pays your money and you takes your pick.
BMD
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Sergei Yolkin ogles the revelations of the week: an article by John McCain in the online edition of Pravda.Ru , Putin’s possible candidacy in the 2018 Russian presidential election, and the story behind the creation of the Cooperative Озеро (Ozero: Lake) by Vladimir Yakunin.
20 September 2013
Sergei Yolkin
RIA-Novosti
http://ria.ru/caricature/20130920/964753483.html