It’s not an easy time to be a political street artist in Russia.
This week, artist Pavel Krisevich was sentenced to five years in prison for a political performance on Moscow’s Red Square in June 2021. Earlier this year, another artist, Alexandra Skochilenko, was detained (and is now on trial) in St Petersburg after having allegedly replaced price tags with anti-war messages in a supermarket. And authorities are cracking down on those protesting the war in Ukraine
And yet, leading Russian street artist Timofey Radya has, so far, chosen to stay in his home country – despite the increased repression.
