KIEV – The title of the menu, “Long live Junta”, and its Hitler-like caricatures of Vladimir Putin are some of the more benign gags at a new bar in Kiev packed nightly with crowds.Opened this month, the Karatel bar, whose name translates as “The Punisher”, offers a tongue-in-cheek gastronomical take on all the main cliches of Russian propaganda about Ukraine’s conflict with pro-Moscow separatists in the east.The owners, some of them Ukrainian army veterans, offer a discount to active soldiers.They say their black humour is harmless, and that it helps people affected by the conflict feel at ease.But serving novelties …read more
Source: AsiaOne
