“The Great Anti-vaccinator” and ‘Golden Bitcoin’? Will Britain extradite Artem Dmitruk and where is Andriy Odarchenko hiding?
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Last week the Verkhovna Rada expelled MPs Artem Dmytruk (Odessa) and Andriy Odarchenko (Kharkiv) from parliamentary committees. Both MPs are under investigation and have illegally left Ukraine.
...Some decommunizers in Kharkiv decided to remove Ellochka the Ludo-eater, Kisa Vorobyaninov and the Great Combinator as representatives of the... “Russian world”.
In my opinion, the satirical works of Ilf and Petrov “Golden Calf” and “12 Chairs” should, on the contrary, be published in gigantic editions (translated into Ukrainian), because better than these authors, no one has shown the undying power of all kinds of clever combinations from the cycle of “you can't invent on purpose”.
It is impossible to invent on purpose that a people's deputy, a member of the Anti-Corruption Committee is suspected of attempted bribery, and a people's deputy, a member of the Committee on Law
Enforcement - of public brawls.
If writers Ilf and Petrov were alive today, they would have written satirical stories with titles like “Golden Bitcoin” or “The Great Antivaccinator”.
Who are Artem Dmytruk and Andrey Odarchenko?
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