Dogs of war: Cartoon characters are taking the fight to Russia

A mobilisation of online warriors calling itself the North Atlantic Fella Organization has caused headaches for the Putin regime

Cartoon dogs hounded a senior Russian diplomat from social media, many tweeting Shiba Inus being Irish.

Mikhail Ivanovich Ulyanov is not the type of man you would associate with an internet movement.

A greyish bureaucrat with a 1980s moustache, Ulyanov serves as Russia’s permanent representative to international organisations in Vienna after a long and uneventful diplomatic career.