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New York Times: An artist who aspires to be ‘a bone in everyone’s throat’

Published Feb. 28, 2020 at 5:47 pm

Russian artist Pyotr Pavlensky, accused of vandalism after torching the doors to the headquarters of the FSB security service, the successor to the KGB, the previous day, stands inside a defendants' cage during a hearing at a court in Moscow on November 10, 2015.

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He has infuriated just about everyone.

The Russian authorities threw him in jail for setting fire to the door of the secret police headquarters in Moscow. France, which gave him asylum three years ago, also jailed him, also over a fire, and is now investigating him connection with two new criminal cases, one relating to a New Year’s Eve brawl in a chic Paris apartment, the other over his release of a sex tape of a French politician.