Early last week the following cartoon appeared on the Ellustrator website:


By the end of the week, it was gone.

In the cartoon's first panel, Putin says to Medvedev: "Oh, Mr. Successor! Here's the atomic suitcase with the red button. Be very careful with this."

In the second panel, Medvedev answers: "I'll find good hiding place for it." Putin replies: "Good idea."

In the third panel, Medvedev returns to Putin an hour later and says: "Volody, buddy, I don't know what's going on. You slipped me some defective hardware! I pressed it and pressed it, but it wouldn't even go down once!"

Perhaps Ellustrator got a phone call from the Kremlin?