...GREAT THINGS HAPPENED TO GREAT NATIONS...GREAT ARTIST ARE SO HIGH THAT THEY CAN SEE FROM THAT FAR POSITION ONLY GREAT THINK WHICH HAPPENED TO GREAT NATIONS...MEANWHILE SMALL NATION SITING IN THEIR TINY PLACES AND FARG...MANIK...MARCH...2011... ----- Original Message ----- From: "marc garrett" <[email protected]> To: "netbehaviour for networked distributed creativity" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 1:02 PM Subject: [NetBehaviour] How Banksy bailed out Russian graffiti artists Voina.
British graffiti artist Banksy may never have been seen in public but his nearest Russian equivalents cannot seem to keep out of the news these days - thanks partly to the Russian police. Leonid Nikolayev and Oleg Vorotnikov, members of the radical art collective Voina, were freed from custody last week after nearly four months awaiting trial for overturning police cars in St Petersburg. “They attacked Leonid from behind and rained down blows on my back and my head” They held a press conference on Thursday to talk about their ordeal. On their way home, accompanied by Oleg's wife Natalia Sokol and his two-year-old son, Casper, they noticed they were being followed by seven men, who looked like "typical thugs". When Natalia started taking pictures of the men, they tried to grab the camera. In the struggle she was pushed into a puddle and dragged by the hair, so violently that one of her braids was ripped out. "They said they were from the Criminal Investigation department," she said when I eventually reached her by e-mail. "But if they really were police investigators they behaved pretty strangely." Oleg added: "They waved their IDs, but we couldn't examine them. Then they attacked Leonid from behind and rained down blows on my back and my head." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12645902 _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
