Naked artist nails his scrotum to Red Square in anti-Putin protest

Naked artist nails his scrotum to Red Square in anti-Putin protest

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norman lebrecht

November 10, 2013

Peter Pavlenskogo, who has previously protested on behalf of the Pussy Riot prisoners, told police that his action was a cry against the ‘apathy, indifference and political fatalism‘ of modern Russia. Doctors ruled him sane and he is being held in custody.

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Comments

  • Peter says:

    Now had that been Peter Tatchell outside the Barbican perhaps a few more people might have turned up to his last anti-Gergiev event…

  • Phil says:

    Sanity is an increasingly subjective thing these days, methinks.

  • Frances says:

    OUCH!!

  • Evelyn Rogers Gaudiano says:

    And that action wasn’t crazy? Think I may become a psychiatrist!

  • Self-immolation is so last-decade.

  • Patrick Armstrong says:

    Ummm… Red Square is cobblestones…. what did he hammer the bail into?

  • Patrick Armstrong says:

    “nail” not “bail”

  • cabbagejuice says:

    Why didn’t they just leave him there?

  • ninakane1 says:

    Brave man. I admire his stance and the action which is important. Shame on Putin and his government. Thank you for sharing this story.

  • John Molnar says:

    Brings a whole new meaning to “nailing it.”

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