Noted Siberian artist Vasily Slonov, known for producing a series of puppets challenging Russia's Soviet past and current government, was detained on February 8 on a charge of demonstrating extremist symbols, his wife said, adding that police searched her husband's workshop and the couple's apartment. The NGS24 website cited sources as saying Slonov was detained at Krasnoyarsk's airport while trying to fly to Kazakhstan. The report says the charge stems from Slonov's failure to follow a court decision to delete a picture of his puppet with jail tattoos. Local prosecutors and police have not commented. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Siberia.Realities, click here.
Noted Siberian Artist Vasily Slonov Detained On Extremism Charge
Siberian artist Vasily Slonov poses with one of his puppets in 2018.