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Censorship SUX!
/road accident-picket/

In May 2008 the Moscow Prosecutor's Office has laid charges against the organizers of the "Forbidden Art 2006" exhibition, which took place in Moscow in March 2007 and featured Christian symbols, obscene slang and images critical of the Russian police and army.

The government has imitated an outcry from the right-wing Orthodox movement ?National Assembly? to initiate a criminal case against Yury Samodurov, the director of the Sakharov center, where the art show was held, and Andrey Erofeev, the exhibition curator and head of the Department of art at the State Tretyakov gallery.

On May 22 Andrey Erofeev was summoned for questioning on charges of breaking the infamous Criminal Code Article 282, paragraph 2-b, ?actions aimed at the incitement of national, racial, or religious enmity committed in public by a person through his official position?.

His appearance was marked with two dozen of sport suit wearing Voina activists in a specially decorated truck crashing into another vehicle on the street in front of the Prosecutor's Office. They blocked traffic, greeted the prosecuted curator and went down for an exercise session and a picket with loud chants on the driveway under the motto "Censorship SUX!".

Police enforcements arrived on scene late to find an abandoned smashed truck, its sides decorated with action mottos: ?Eternal disgrace to oppressors of Sots-art? and ?Censorship is a bitch - the artist is cool?.