It’s May! To the Backyard! We Gotta Plant the Potatoes!
Sergei Yolkin
2013
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In Russian slang, to “plant someone” is the same as the American usage “they threw him in the slam”. So, Yolkin makes a funny out of “planting” and planting. In short, another play on words. Russians ARE going out to their dachas and setting up their gardens… after all, the Nasty Nineties might reoccur (when the oligarchs are dispossessed, it isn’t going to be pretty or painless).
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Russians are waiting for the long holiday in May. Sergei Yolkin suggests what some are going to do with those five days of freedom.
29 April 2013
Sergei Yolkin
RIA-Novosti
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20 July 2015. A Picture IS Worth a Thousand Words… Aleksandr Vladimirovich and Graham Phillips… Partyin’ Hearty in the DNR
Tags: Aleksandr Zakharchenko, dachas, DNR, Donetsk People's Republic, everyday life, political commentary, politics, Russia, Russian, summer, vacation, weekend
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Not everything is serious during wartime… in fact, one NEEDS R&R… it looks like Chairman Zakharchenko is having a typical “dacha weekend!” He’s blowin’ off some steam with Graham Phillips, the well-known war correspondent from England. Where are the shashliki and the cucumber salad? Where’s the jug with the special kick-your-ass samogon moonshine (betcha that those bodyguards are stayin’ sober, though)? Perspirin’ minds wanna know…
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