Igor Yakovenko: "The Old Man and the Fish"

“The main story of the week is Putin and the pike. Judging by the Russian media, Putin’s feat in the battle with the pike far exceeds in scale what was accomplished by the Cuban fisherman Santiago, glorified by Hemingway, and is quite comparable to the battle with the sea monster Moby Dick from the novel of the same name Melville," writes a Daily Journal columnist.

“Putin’s pike may be a little smaller than a five-meter marlin and clearly thinner than a 26-meter sperm whale, but it is certainly more cunning and bloodthirsty than both of them. By the way, the poet Bykov recently invited all Russian writers to write a book for Putin, after which the Russian dictator will immediately become kinder and turn around. country towards peace, progress and prosperity. I hasten to contribute to the future masterpiece and propose the title: “The Old Man and the Fish.” I hope there will be no problems with copyright.

And all the Russian media avidly commented on Putin’s nudes. In the sense that Putin’s nude scared the whole world terribly. And the West is generally in panic. Because there, in the West, no one has ever had such a nude. Soloviev in “Sunday Evening” dated August 6, 2017 said this: “The Americans were shown Putin with a naked torso in nature. They got scared and decided that the Russians were plotting something again. They probably want to return Alaska.”