Russia: “Extreme and Absurd, Violence and Art” · Global Voices
Veronica Khokhlova

Moscow Through Brown Eyes lists recent “extremist actions” in Russia, writes about one of the possible reasons for the ongoing South Park scandal, and posts a video of a “provocative performance” by art group “Voina”: “As a present to well-known xenophobic and homophobic Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, the artists acted out the piece ‘Hanging,’ in which three migrant workers and two gay activists pretended to be executed.”