anti-homosexual images in Russian print

[Josh Wilson]

Just to add to this, 

 

Caricatura.ru (the site supplied by Gasan) seems to be only a website - not
a newspaper or magazine. 

 

You can see more information about the website's distribution here:
http://www.liveinternet.ru/stat/caricatura.ru/index.html?period=month

 

They average about 3000 visitors a month. For a website with as much content
as this one has, that is fairly pitiful. (Keep in mind that most website
visits are "bounces" - visitors that land on a site and leave fairly
quickly. Others are "spiders" - the bots by which search engines regularly
scour webpages in order to build their databases from which search results
are drawn. It looks like they do have quite a few visitors that do stop and
look extensively - the page view to visitor ratio here is quite high - but
if you are looking for how wide-spread the popularity of the site is, you
want to look at unique visitor numbers. 

 

There are about 50-80 million internet users in Russia alone - not counting
the millions outside of Russia. 

 

I'd also point out that their audience and page views are declining
significantly. 

 

Just to put things in a bit of perspective. 

 

 

Josh Wilson
Assistant Director
The School of Russian and Asian Studies
Editor in Chief
Vestnik, The Journal of Russian and Asian Studies
SRAS.org 
jwilson at sras.org

 

 

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enjoy <http://caricatura.ru/search/?s=%E3%E5%E8> 

 

 

2014/1/22 Denis Kierans <formallyrussia at gmail.com>

Hello All!

As I am new to this please correct me if I am deviating too much from usual
format here. All advice is appreciated.

OK: Do you know of any "cultural" newspapers or satirical magazines that
(would likely) feature cartoons/caricatures of a Russian homosexual? My aim
here is to track down a clearly negative and critical visual portrayal of
the homosexual in contemporary Russia. I will be likening this image to the
oft-cited cartoons of "Zionists" or Jews in earlier Krokodil, linking the
two by way of anti-American sentiment and the continued deployment of the
language of difference.

Also, for the record, I am a Master's Student at University of Toronto.

Thank you all very much,

Denis

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