Town Burns Effigy of Putin Astride MH17 Plane

A bonfire night in Lewes, England, looks set to attract worldwide attention, thanks to the use of two effigies of Vladimir Putin. Bonfire Night, or Fawkes Night, is marked every year in the UK on November 5, commemorating a failed 1605 plot to blow up the House of Lords.Celebrations in Lewes bring together displays from six of the town’s seven bonfire societies and have a history of burning controversial effigies. One of this year’s Putin effigies had him astride the Malaysia Airlines MH17 plane, another showed him sporting a Borat-style “mankini”. Credit: Facebook/PJ Johnson