Lopatin Caricatures (Russia): Difference between revisions

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|confronting_bodies=Kamchatka Regional Art Museum
|confronting_bodies=Kamchatka Regional Art Museum
|date_of_action=April, 2012
|date_of_action=April, 2012
|location=Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
|description_of_content=Caricatures representing Russian politicians (Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev), Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky and business tycoon, Roman Abramovich. Medvedev is represented as a cook holding a two headed plucked bird; under his toque peeks a mouse with the features of President Putin. http://www.newsru.com/cinema/01may2012/lopatin.html
|description_of_content=Caricatures representing Russian politicians (Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev), Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky and business tycoon, Roman Abramovich. Medvedev is represented as a cook holding a two headed plucked bird; under his toque peeks a mouse with the features of President Putin. http://www.newsru.com/cinema/01may2012/lopatin.html
|description_of_incident=The museum director, Tatyana Bikovec, removed the works from the exhibition.  A reporter commenting on the incident said that she was a good person but a "victim of current circumstances who lives in the grip of fear." http://echo.msk.ru/blog/garycravt/883303-echo/
|description_of_incident=The museum director, Tatyana Bikovec, removed the works from the exhibition.  A reporter commenting on the incident said that she was a good person but a "victim of current circumstances who lives in the grip of fear." http://echo.msk.ru/blog/garycravt/883303-echo/