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"While he served in the KGB, Vladimir Putin had a nickname "Moth." He received it for being inconspicuous, almost unnoticeable, and, of course, for being physically small. Back in Soviet times, moth was one of the biggest threats to carpets and everyone had to deal with it once in a while. Soviet people had one more enemy and fighting it required a lot of time and effort - a cockroach... However surprising, but "Cockroach" is exactly the nickname that Lukashenko, illegitimate president of Belarus has. This is how the people of Belarus call him and how they depict him in caricatures. It is probably not surprising that the Russian "Moth" and Belarus "Cockroach" have united in their fight against pro-European Ukraine and want to drag it backwards, into the distant and scary Soviet past, filled with censorship, communist ideology and fighting against moths and cockroaches," - Ukrainian writer Andrii Kurkov smartly points out in his column for DW.