publicradiointernational: Russia’s underground artists are pioneering new forms of risky, highly public dissent, aimed at mocking Putin, Medvedev and the political class. Voina (“War”), a collective from St. Petersburg, is responsible for some of the most daring art actions. “They declared a war,” Anna Nemtsova, Moscow correspondent for Newsweek, tells Studio 360’s Kurt Andersen, “to state corruption, injustice, and the political regime.” Last year Voina painted a 210-foot phallus on a drawbridge facing the Federal Security Bureau, the former KGB. Thank you, PRI, for introducing me to KGB penis art.

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Russia’s underground artists are pioneering new forms of risky, highly public dissent, aimed at mocking Putin, Medvedev and the political class.

Voina (“War”), a collective from St. Petersburg, is responsible for some of the most daring art actions. “They declared a war,” Anna Nemtsova, Moscow correspondent for Newsweek, tells Studio 360’s Kurt Andersen, “to state corruption, injustice, and the political regime.”

Last year Voina painted a 210-foot phallus on a drawbridge facing the Federal Security Bureau, the former KGB.

Thank you, PRI, for introducing me to KGB penis art.