“Mutant Vatnik,” YouTube screen capture, written by Irena Karpa. Published October 10, 2014.
Did the Luhansk rebels’ minister of culture just ask a local court to execute a Ukrainian writer over an online cartoon? Or was the bizarre request for capital punishment part of a propaganda campaign by forces in Kyiv, bent on damaging the reputation of the “terrorists” to the east?
Earlier today, the pro-Ukrainian portal Lugansk Radar reported that Irina Filatova, the supposed “minister for culture” of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic, intends to sue Irena Karpa, a Ukrainian musician and writer, for lampooning Filatova in a satirical cartoon. Filatova …read more
Source: Global Voices
