Police seize ‘Putin in nightie’
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Russian police raided an exhibition and confiscated a painting that portrayed President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev lounging together in women’s lingerie.
Police said yesterday they had confiscated four paintings by artist Konstantin Altunin and closed down the exhibition of his work in Russia’s second-largest city of St Petersburg, which is set to host world leaders for the G20 summit next month.
One of the paintings shows Putin playing with Medvedev’s hair. He is wearing a nightie, while Medvedev has cleavage bursting out of a bra and is wearing skimpy knickers.
“We received information from a citizen that the images in the museum broke the law. Police confiscated four paintings and currently experts are examining them,” said police spokesman Vyacheslav Stepchenko.
The exhibition made explicit references to a controversial law recently passed by Putin banning promotion of homosexuality among minors, although police did not specify the legal grounds for its closure.
The law, which critics says can be used to shut down any gay rights event, has prompted a chorus of protest and British actor Stephen Fry this month called for Russia to be deprived of the right to host the Winter Olympics in Sochi next year.
Exhibition’s organizer Alexander Donskoi said police had accused the small privately owned Museum of Power of extremism, a criminal offence that carries more serious charges.
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