Dal cilindro (Pulling the Bunny out)

This article is devoted to a cartoon character created by the writer, poet and essayist Linor Goralik (1975) and entitled Bunny FLRE (Zajac PC i ego voobražaemye druz’ja). Born in the early 2000s and raised in the web and in the major social networks, Bunny FLRE also appears in print in at least four eponymous collections. The comic strip in which he is the protagonist recounts Putin’s Russia in an unconventional and politically incorrect way, offering a chronicle that is anything but radiant and yet ironic. The text also features a wide selection of cartoons conveniently divided into a number of subthemes: politics, society, culture, gender issues, sexuality, religion and even more recent events such as the COVID, the constitutional referendum and the Nobel Prize awarded to Muratov in autumn 2021.