Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Russian art pranksters upset St Petersburg police

Art provocateurs Voina (War) have been raising hell again in St Petersburg. In a carefully coordinated campaign of carnage they ran around the city last week overturning police cars and locking officers safely out of reach.



Emboldened by colourful slogans including “help the child – help the country!” and “F*ck the police!” a child’s ball rolled under a police car and a band of helpful artists went to retrieve it, tipping the car on its roof. This was not before they had distracted nearby police officers and locked them behind the main gate of St Michael’s with bicycle locks. They then moved on to other parts of town and other police cars.

In an obscenity laced account on his Livejournal page, Alexei Plucer lays out a brief ideology for his group’s antics, “This is where it was decided to make a final attack on werewolves in uniforms as per the ‘palace revolt.’ Peter I was killed as a result of this in 1801 … Today there is a monument to the murdered Peter by Mikhail Shemyakin surrounded by cameras and rubbish [police].”



The group won notoriety after painting an enormous penis onto one of St Petersburg’s opening bridges on the eve of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum. The idea was apparently to highlight the lax security surrounding the event, group leader Lyonya Y*****y (Lyonya F****d-Up) said in a statement.

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