Animator Egor Zhgun, who often makes visual parodies of Russian politics, recently released a video of "Putin's alphabet":
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The video is a parody of the Olympic opening ceremony video of the Russian alphabet.
It starts off with Putin dreaming about being Napoleon Bonaparte:
Reference is then made to United Russia, the country's leading centrist party, led by Dmitri Medvedev.
And Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov (who has a very close relationship with Putin) is represented by a mocking Nelson:
Religious extremist groups such as the Orthodox Gonfalon-Carriers are mentioned:
As is Russia's Kremlin-controlled Gazprom, the largest gas company in the world:
Former Ukrainian president Yanukovych is seen passively flip-flopping between Russia and the European Union (which started the conflict in Ukraine):
And attention is brought to the Bolotnaya Square case from 2012, when a rally in Moscow ended up with eight participants being convicted for "mass riots":
The Dima Yakovlev Bill, which prohibits Americans from adopting Russian orphans, is also mentioned.
Several nods are made to the dystopian society in Orwell's 1984:
And the video is even "censored" at some point.
