Russian for piece-meal



- First editorial cartoon that the Messenger published. I have to dig for the exact date, but it was in September, week of the 17th. Story behind it is a rumor that briefly got media attention, but soon subsided. As Russia won the right to hold 2014 Winter Olympic games in Sochi, some in the Georgian government started talking about Abkhazia willingly giving Russia a sliver of its land. According to the same piece of news, in order to hold Olympic games, the town has to have 40 kilometer clearance from a conflict zone, and it does not, unless Abkhazia gives up part of its land. No one said that Abkhazia willingly giving Russia anything would not be legally binding. At the moment it seemed interesting enough to draw about...

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