…and the artist has fled the county:
A museum director says an artist whose paintings depicted Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in women’s undergarments has fled the country. The director of St. Petersburg’s Museum of Power, Tatiana Titova, said Wednesday that Konstantin Altunin left for France and was planning to request asylum there. Authorities removed four of Altunin’s satirical depictions of Russian politicians on Monday and shut down the exhibition. A police statement did not specify which laws may have been violated by the provocative works. A Russian law prohibits insulting state authorities.
Someone tell me again that Russia in 2013 bears no resemblance whatsoever to Germany in 1933.
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