"Giant penis" drawers in Russia, protest against corruption by tipping police cars

Following on from drawing a giant penis on a bridge, a group of 'artists' in St. Petersburg have moved onto a new form of artisitic protest - tipping over police cars. The group - which calls itself Voina - flipped over eight patrol cars in one night as a protest against what they claim is widespread corruption in police ranks in St Petersburg.

The group was previously responsible for such protests as staging an orgy in Moscow's Biological Museum, and memorably painting a 200ft high penis on a St. Petersburg drawbridge.

Alexei Plutser-Sarno, a spokesman for the group, said on his blog: 'The police won't pursue us. We have neither money nor property, so there's nothing to get from us. The werewolves in epaulettes don't work for no reason and for free.'

Another of the group's stunts involved releasing thousands of cockroaches into a court room where two group members were facing trial over one exhibition.

Russian art expert David Riff commented: 
'The aim of art is to provoke and oppose, and Voina is the only group now which still performs these kinds of things.'


/Metro.co.uk/