Kavkaz Center:Briton Arrested: Pictures Of Naked Putin Are Russia’s State Secret

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Briton Arrested: Pictures of Naked Putin Are Russia’s State Secret
Publication time: 21 October 2006, 21:44

A British gallery owner says Moscow customs, irked by the unorthodox representation of the Russian dog Putin prevented him from taking several pieces of modern art from the country, The Sunday Telegragh reported.

Five collages depicting semi-naked  Putin were to feature in an exhibition in London’s Matthew Bown Gallery. The gallery owner, Matthew Cullern Bown said customs officials at Sheremetyevo airport detained the collages.

“From talking to various customs and policemen I get the impression that what they are worried about is the satirical representation of Putin, ” he said.

Mr Bown was prevented from getting on his flight while an inquiry assessed whether the images constitute “anti-government agitation”. He is actually under arrest, The Scotsman adds.

After the dog Putin, the former KGB terrorist and spy, came to power in 2000, the Kremlin sent strong signals to media that mocking pictures of the Kremlin leader  were not welcome any more.

Within months, the most popular puppet show of independent NTV television where the dog Putin featured as a key character disappeared. Other media obediently followed the lead.

Kremlin officials have said they did not like Pitin  to be humiliated by the media.

Prosecutors in a central Russian town of Ivanovo have charged a local journalist with “abuse of an official” for publishing an article headlined “Putin as a Phallic Symbol of Russia”.

KC
http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2006/10/21/6076.shtml

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