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Published time: February 22, 2012 11:03
Edited time: February 22, 2012 15:03

Protest art exhibition on show in Moscow (Photo by Veronika Komarova / PublicPost)

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This winter’s demos across Russia showed that the opposition might lack a unified program, yet it does not lack creativity.

Moscow is hosting a display of protest posters and objects from the demos that have already become classics through social networks and photo reports.

A joint project between OpenSpace online portal and Artplay Design Center, the exhibition follows the evolution of the protests as individuals took their artistry and sense of humor to the streets. Two levels in the Artplay exhibition hall show dozens of works from both ordinary people and professional artists.

Posters, costumes, witty drawings, caricatures and unusual slogans – all of these not only displayed people’s rage against officials such as PM Vladimir Putin and Election Commission head Vladimir Churov. Many of them are truly original artwork.

The display of the “best of this winter’s protest movement” will be on through February 26.

"You don't even represent us" by artist Pavel Arseniev (Photo by Veronika Komarova / PublicPost)

This Duma in not LEGOtimate (Photo by Veronika Komarova / PublicPost)

Photo by Veronika Komarova / PublicPost

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Larry (unregistered) 25.02.2012 20:16

Just take a minute and look how phony this 'protest' art is....Probably supplied by the CIA....None of these icons are Russian...They are all mainstream trash US TV....Pathetic..
Top photo: A reggae song "No Woman No Cry"...Little blue U.S. fifties style advertisement art..

Third from top: Legos (an American toy)

Bottom: 'Hopeless' picture of Putin...directly copied from an Obama poster & a 'South Park' poster "B*****! They stole my vote!"

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Larry (unregistered) 24.02.2012 03:08

Right....All that stale Cold War anti Putin rhetoric seems pathetic now....That little blue man looks like a US fifties cartoon of some office lackey&n bsp;trying to please his boss.....Ironic..yes ?

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US 24.02.2012 01:09

No real Russians oppose the greatest leader Russia has had in decades who is pro-Russian. Not a Banker like Stalin, Lenin, Trotsky, or a drunk selling Russia off. England is financing these demonstrators, because they are upset Russians are actually starting to become a global power again, investing in infrastructure, defense and the Russian people. Not stealing money from the Russian people and giving it to the slimy bankers in England.

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