Petersburg police confiscate anti-war posters the day after exhibit opens
Source: MR7
On January 31 in St. Petersburg, an exhibit of Yelena Osipova’s work opened in the offices of a branch of the Yabloko political party. The exhibit displayed the 77-year-old artist and activists’s anti-war posters.
On February 1, the day after the exhibit opened, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs cordoned off the exhibit premises, said they’d received information about a bomb threat, and seized the posters.
Police confiscated Osipova’s posters from an exhibit hosted by Yabloko
The exhibit was supposed to run until February 24, which marks one year since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. At the time of publication, the fate of the exhibit is unknown.
