УКРАЇНА, РОСІЯ І СВІТОВА БЕЗПЕКА У КАРИКАТУРІ ДЕРІЛА КЕЙГЛА ТА ІНТЕРНЕТ-РЕСУРСУ CAGLE CARTOONS

Abstract

The article describes the features of representation of events in Ukraine since 2004, and the 2014-2019 Russian-Ukrainian armed conflict in political cartoons of American cartoonist Daryl Cagle as well as in internet resource Cagle Cartoons. Five hundred twenty caricatures of the resource have been analyzed and systematized according to basic thematic units covered in the subjects of political cartoons. The most common conceptual graphic metaphors, images of Ukraine, Russia and countries of the West reflected in the political cartoons as well as the attitude of cartoonists to the depicted events of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict are analyzed. The analysis revealed that clearly expressed anti-Russian position, regardless of the nationality of the artists, is the standard features of the cartoons. In all the pictures, Ukraine is represented in the position of a victim of Russian aggression; the criminal nature of President Vladimir Putin's politic and Russian troops actions in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine are emphasized. The plots of the cartoons have a pronounced gender discourse (Ukraine is represented as a woman, Russia - as a man (most often - V. Putin), creating a binary opposition weakness - strength). Most cartoons regard the Ukrainian-Russian war not only as a local conflict, which menaces to the national interests and security of Ukraine but in a much broader context of European and world security.