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|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/
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An internationally recognized caricature and cartoon artist, Lopatin has been publishing in Kamchatka papers since 2002 and has also been summoned to court for a caricature of the Kamchatka vice-governor, called to the prosecutor's office for a cartoon, as well as issued warnings and threats by officials on various levels. Once his exhibition was banned at the last moment because the governor decided that some of the caricatures offended the dignity of some female clerks.
An internationally recognized caricature and cartoon artist, Lopatin has been publishing in Kamchatka papers since 2002 and has also been summoned to court for a caricature of the Kamchatka vice-governor, called to the prosecutor's office for a cartoon, as well as issued warnings and threats by officials on various levels. Once his exhibition was banned at the last moment because the governor decided that some of the caricatures offended the dignity of some female clerks.