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Estonian Museum Director Sentenced to Russian Prison

09/25/2025

Maria Smorzhevskikh-Smirnova, the director of the Narva Museum in Estonia, was sentenced to 10 years in prison in absentia on charges related to hanging banners that label Russian president Vladimir Putin a “war criminal.” One banner fuses Putin’s face with …

Метки : искусствосвобода словаполитиканацизмэстонияпутин

Portrait That Putin Gave to Trump Finally Revealed to Public

04/28/2025

Last month, Vladimir Putin gifted Donald Trump a portrait of the US president. Trump’s Ukraine and Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff delivered it to the White House after returning from Moscow, where he had met Putin to discuss ending the …

Метки : путинтрампискусствоукраинаполитикадипломатия

Pope.L (1955–2023)

12/29/2023

Pathbreaking conceptual and performance artist Pope.L, who explored themes of race, power, and class through interventions that were often fiercely physical, frequently shocking, and almost invariably thought-provoking, died suddenly on December 23 at his home in Chicago. He was sixty-eight. …

Метки : путинвластьроссияпрезидент1955-2023