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...June 11, Alexander Shchednov, known in Russia's art circles as Shurik, was hanging up a collage outside the town hall in the southwestern city of Voronezh. The image showed the face of a coy-looking Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin superimposed over the head of a woman in an evening dress, with the slogan, "Oh I don't know ... a third presidential [term] ... it's too much, on the other hand [three is a charm]." But Shchednov never got the chance to display his new work. Before he could hang the collage, he was arrested, becoming the latest...
Speaking to the opposition website Kasparov.ru, Elena Dudukina of the Voronezh human-rights protection group Voronezh-Chernozemye said Shchednov was asked to give the police a $95 bribe to avoid arrest. When he refused, he was detained overnight and, according to Dudukina, beaten while in custody; Voronezh police say an investigation into the allegation is under way. A trial was scheduled for June 15, with Shchednov charged with "uncensored swearing in a public place." But the artist never showed up in court, so the hearing has been postponed. (See pictures of the fashions of Russian Czars...
...mark the end of years of negotiations over the return of the Lowell bells—some of which date back to the 17th century—that have remained at Harvard for nearly 80 years. Lowell House will receive newly molded bells from the Vera Bell Foundry in Voronezh, Russia, which was hand-picked from five foundries that University representatives surveyed last August. The delegation—consisting of Associate Provost of Art and Culture Sean T. Buffington ’91, project manager Peter Riley, and Lowell House tutor Luis A. Campos—visited the foundry last...
RELEASED. JOHN TOBIN, 24, American Fulbright scholar convicted in April on drug charges; on parole after six months into his one-year sentence; in Rossosh, Russia. Tobin, once a military-intelligence trainee, was arrested for marijuana possession in Voronezh, where he had been studying Russian political evolution, and later accused of (but never charged with) espionage. According to prison wardens, the foreign student passed the time by playing Ping-Pong, chess and the guitar...
CHARGED. U.S. Fulbright scholar JOHN EDWARD TOBIN, 24; with possession of marijuana; in Voronezh, Russia, where he was studying. In a bizarre chain of events, the Russian security service arrested Tobin on drug charges, then accused him of being a spy, an allegation denied by the State Department. The spy insinuations were later dropped, but officials may now charge him with drug dealing...