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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,...

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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".

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