This is a short diary, but I had not seen this before (forgive me if it is a double posting).
This past week a painting of Putin in woman's underwear. I've seen it called drag or a negligee, but whatever people call it it is dissent that is bringing more attention to the atrocious laws regarding homosexuality that have been recently passed.
Start of Christian-Science Monitor article:
Russian police raided a St. Petersburg art gallery Monday, seizing several "offensive" paintings that appeared to taunt Russian leaders for their alleged homophobia, including one that depicted President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in lingerie, and another that presented the coauthor of a recent law against homosexual "propaganda," Vitaly Milonov, against the backdrop of a rainbow flag.Apparently the fact that the G20 is meeting (including our very own POTUS) in St. Petersburg in about week is making the repressive & corrupt Putin regime feel that they need to crack down on any dissent - especially on such a hateful and petty law.
The gallery's owner, Alexander Donskoy, said that police launched the search-and-seizure operation without warrants and proceeded to seal the entire exhibition, which also included risqué depictions of Mr. Obama, former Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, and former Soviet leaders Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin. The entire exhibit can be viewed online.More below the fold.