The artist Peter Pavlenkova will be judged for the damage of the object of cultural heritage
ARTinvestment.RU   26 апреля 2016

Set on fire outside his front door action by the FSB is installed on the object of cultural heritage "the Building of the NKVD — of the KGB, 1940-1947 s., architect. A. V. Schusev, the ensemble of administrative buildings of the OGPU — NKVD — of the KGB"

Prosecutor of the Central administrative district of Moscow officially announced the direction of the court the criminal case on the arson front door of the building of the FSB of Russia. The Prosecutor's office confirmed the indictment in the criminal case against 32-летнего a resident of St.-Петербурга Peter Pavlenkova, according to which he is accused of committing a crime under part 1 of article 243 of the criminal code (damage of the identified object of cultural heritage).

more specifically, the first portion 243-й article is formulated as follows:

Destruction or damage of cultural heritage objects (monuments of history and culture) of peoples of the Russian Federation included in the unified state register of objects of cultural heritage (monuments of history and culture) of peoples of the Russian Federation, the identified cultural heritage sites, natural complexes, the objects taken under protection of the state, or cultural property shall be punished by a fine of up to three million rubles or the salary or other income for a period of up to three years, or by compulsory works for a term of up to four hours, or hard labor for a term up to three years, or imprisonment for the same term.

Initially the case was initiated on 214-й "Vandalism", which includes, as a worst case the same maximum penalty — to three years of imprisonment. What-то point, the case is reclassified.

Radical artist-акциониста Peter Pavlensky was detained in the night of 9 November 2015 place of performance performance "Threat". Pyotr Pavlensky threw gasoline on the front door of the main building of the FSB of Russia in the butcher's and left to wait at the place of detention. The door was part of the cultural heritage object "the Building of the NKVD — KGB, 1940-1947 gg., architect. A. V. Shchusev, the ensemble of administrative buildings of the OGPU — NKVD — KGB of the USSR", protected by the government.

Look at all this, and it seems that reading Pelevin. The only difference is that the absurdity of this is not with the book characters, but with real lives. And the prison in the long term quite real.

the Punishment for a "Threat" caused a great resonance in the art-сообществе and, in particular, led to another scandal with the state prize "INNOVATION". Pavlensky share included in a nomination "Work of visual art". And most likely, he would have won it. But organizers of the state prize has blocked this initiative, and soon the Expert Council decided that the prize in the nomination "Work of art" will not be awarded.

Vladimir Bogdanov, AI

Source: genproc.gov.ru, facebook.com, mosculture.ru, artinvestment.ru