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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

The art of protest in Russia


Voina in action /Europics
 A modern art protest group is attracting attention in Russia - by overturning police cars.
The group - which calls itself Voina - overturned eight patrol cars in one night as a protest against what they say is widespread corruption in police ranks in St Petersburg.
Spokesman Alexei Plutser-Sarno, said on his blog: "The police won't pursue us. We have neither money nor property, so there's nothing to get from us.
"The werewolves in epaulettes don't work for no reason and for free."
Previous exhibitions have included staging an orgy in Moscow's Biological Museum and painting a 200ft high penis on a St. Petersburg drawbridge.
They once released thousands of cockroaches into a court room where two group members were facing trial over one exhibition.
Russian art expert David Riff, said: "The aim of art is to provoke and oppose, and Voina is the only group now which still performs these kinds of things."

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