Yelena Osipova at Yabloko in Petersburg

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Yelena Osipova
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“Love vs. Hate: Love Your Enemy Too”
“Nuclear Waste from Various Countries Is Transported through St. Petersburg”
Yelena Osipova with her works at the Yabloko party’s offices in Petersburg
“A Russia Without Putin: A Russia That Won’t Be Feared, But Admired! A Peaceful Russia”
“Syria. Russia”

Source: Galina Artemenko (Facebook), 31 January 2023. Captions by TRR. Yesterday (1 February 2023), Ms. Artemenko wrote that the security forces were removing Ms. Osipova’s posters from the Petersburg offices of the opposition Yabloko party. So, her exhibition there lasted all of one day. ||| TRR

Police seized anti-war paintings by 77-year-old artist Yelena Osipova from an exhibition that had opened the night before at the offices of the Yabloko party. Interior Ministry officers came allegedly because they had received a call that a bomb had been planted in the building, and as a result they took all Osipova’s work. The ministry wants to check whether the posters discredit the Russian army. The artist herself is very upset and is afraid that her paintings will not be returned.

Source: “Police raid anti-war exhibition in Petersburg,” Sever.Realii (YouTube), 1 February 2023. Annotation translated by the Russian Reader

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