Brian Boyd for the Irish Times on Oct. 13 writes that when Yanko Tsvetkov, a Bulgarian designer and illustrator, was trying to explain to a friend the complex social, political and economic backdrop to the “gas supply war” between Russian and Ukraine in 2009, he simply drew up a map of Europe with all the country names replaced by stereotypes.
Other newspapers in recent months have profiled Tsvetkov, who has labelled Ukraine "Gas Stealers," "Gas Transit Land," "Buffer Zone," "Personality Disorder," "Wasn’t This in Russia?" "Our Former Colony," "Women with Braided Hair," "Uhrheimat," "What an Odd Country!" and "MEH" in about a dozen of his maps of Europe.
The drawings can be found on Tvetkov’s Mapping Stereotypes website.
