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Ivan Volkov, a Moscow painter, has been arrested following creating a tinted snow work in a square where victims of the 1917 revolution are buried, police said on Monday.
The Russian artist shared the photos of his work on social networks with the caption “Caca”.
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A Russian painter has been arrested for creating an installation in the shape of giant excrement in the center of Saint Petersburg (north-west), near a memorial monument, police in this former imperial capital announced on Monday. This offense is punishable in Russia by five years in prison.
The 30-year-old artist was “arrested (…) on suspicion of desecration in Saint Petersburg,” confirmed a local police spokesperson. “An investigation for insulting the dead and the burial places has been opened,” he said.
According to local news website Fontanka.ru, Ivan Volkov, a painter from Moscow, created a 5-meter-long snow sculpture last week, painted it brown and drew a yellow puddle around it. , on the Champ de Mars, a central square in Saint-Petersburg, notably housing the tombs of the victims of the Russian Revolution of 1917.
He then posted on his Facebook page and on his Instagram account photos of this installation, accompanied by the caption “Caca”, according to the same source.
Putin has made patriotic values a priority
In December, a 19-year-old Russian blogger had already been sentenced in Moscow to 5 years in prison for “insulting the memory” of a World War II veteran, following urinating on the portrait of one of them.
In power in Russia for more than twenty years, Vladimir Putin has made patriotic values a priority of his presidency, the desecration of memorial tombs and the insult to veterans being severely punished in this country.
(AFP)
