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Russian Protesters Use Art as Act of War

An art collective put a phallus on a bridge and burnt a police truck on New Year’s Eve. Can they truly call their protests art?

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For a group of artists, academics, and philosophers from Moscow and St. Petersburg, the war against the Russian government started six years ago, when the group formed an underground art club called Voina (which means “the war”).

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