Images edited by Kevin Rothrock.
After massive referenda earlier this year in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine, the Kremlin’s supporters online have embraced a new separatist vote over 1,500 miles from Moscow. Last week, Russian nationalists—some pro-Putin and others not so much—began expressing their support for the Scottish independence referendum, often drawing parallels between self-determination rights of Scots in the United Kingdom and ethnic Russians in Eastern Ukraine. The connections between the Scottish and Eastern Ukrainian independence movements are, for the most part, thoroughly imagined, but the fantasy has produced several funny pictures.
A number of popular Russian bloggers, like Konstantin Rykov and …read more
Source: Global Voices
