The Story
2012
12 Years of Putin in 2 Minutes
Two days before Putin's re-election, Russian animator Egor Zhgun drops a two-minute cartoon casting Putin as Mr. Burns and Russia's political class as Springfield. The internet detonates.
2018
6 More Years of Putin
Six years later, a day after Putin's fourth term, Zhgun returns. The cartoon is bleaker. Putin has begun to morph — older, harder, clutching a Crimea-shaped shadow.
2024
Part Z
Five days after Putin's fifth term, the trilogy closes with its darkest installment. Putin ends as a half-conscious pharaoh, then as Gollum himself, whispering to a Crimea-shaped ring. Precious.
Full breakdown of every reference, frame by frame, on Meduza: "Putin's Last Term: Part Z" on Meduza →