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Monday, 16 September 2013

16 September 2013. Sergei Yolkin’s World. Events of the Week in Cartoons by Sergei Yolkin: 9-13 September 2013

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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

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Tuesday, 10 September 2013

10 September 2013. Sergei Yolkin’s World. Events of the Week in Cartoons by Sergei Yolkin: 2-6 September 2013

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Events of the Week in Cartoons by Sergei Yolkin: 2-6 September 2013

Sergei Yolkin

2013

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I did my best to copy Yolkin’s “autumn” colouring for the cartoon’s heading.

BMD

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Sergei Yolkin looks at where people are going or are planning to go this week… students are going back to school, and voters are going to the polls, but Barack Obama‘s thinking about going to Syria.

6 September 2013

Sergei Yolkin

RIA-Novosti

http://ria.ru/caricature/20130906/961265411.html

 

10 September 2013. Sergei Yolkin’s World. The City will Control… Who will Control the City…

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The City will Control… Who will Control the City…

Sergei Yolkin

2013

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The title was a bear to “English”, as the original was И город возглавитВозглавит город I had to maintain the flavor of the Russian wordplay. I think that the above does that.

BMD

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For the first time in ten years, the capital had the chance of voting in a direct election of its mayor. Turnout was 32.07 percent of the registered voters and officials have counted 100 percent of all ballots. Sergei Yolkin gives us his view of the proceedings…

9 September 2013

Sergei Yolkin

RIA-Novosti

http://ria.ru/caricature/20130909/961899973.html

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