ABSTRACT
On 5 May 2011, the comment thread of the popular Russian blog drugoi featured a comment by a user who called her- or himself asurra. This user had selected as her or his userpic an image of a rather ungraceful Simpson-like cartoon figure dressed in a bright orange bear costume. “The authorities in Russia are shit,” asurra wrote in response to a politically tinged post by the blog host, “the police are shit. [World War II—ER] [v]eterans are heroes(I mean it) [sic —ER]. Oh, well and compatriots who have close connections with the West through some official documents are also heroes!” 1
