Russia: Paint sprayed on Belarusian photographer’s pictures of Ukrainian soldiers


Moscow’s Sakharov Center is hosting a display of Direct Look 2016 winners’ works. Belarusian Alyaksandr Vasyukovich’s photos of the project ‘Commemorative Picture’ which took the first place in the nomination ‘Conflict’.

In the summer of 2014, Vasyukovich spent two weeks in anti-terrorist operation zone in Donbas and met a lot of people who voluntarily left their homes and jobs to defend Ukraine from the enemy. Some of them asked him to take a commemorative photo and send it to their families.

Later Alyaksandr turned the collection into the project. What distinguish his works from others are red crosses on the images of those fighters who then fell in battle.

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According to Russian Tv station ren.tv, an unknown man burst into the showroom and sprayed paint on some items. As it turned out, his name is Anton Belikov, he is an artist and has a Сandidate degree in philosophy. The attacker attempted to flee the scene, the exhibition administration called the police.

“The photos by of the Belarusian author show Ukrainian punishers who organized provocations in Crimea and urged to destroy Donetsk and Luhansk republics,” ren.tv reports. The channel called the exhibition ‘Nazi-like’.

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