Dubravka Ugresic explores fishy side of political porn

Dubravka Ugresic pays tribute to political porn and healthy paranoia in the new issue of The Drawbridge magazine.

‘I cannot recall when I last saw a more pornographic image. The picture is a close-up of Putin holding a fish and kissing it. It was taken during the president's visit to a fish farm in the village of Ikryanoe, near Astrakhan, on the Caspian Sea. He is kissing a sturgeon, the fish that produces the finest caviar. The eye of the fish, visible just below Putin's nostrils, is, it seems, warmer and more tender than Putin's own...’

Read on at The Drawbridge website.

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