Russia's Lawless Art Collective Voina Wages Legal Warfare On Own Documentarian

Russian Art Collective Sues Its Own Documentarian
TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY MARINA KORENEVAParticipants of 'Voina' (The War) radical art-group, Oleg Vorotnikov (R) and Leonid Nikolaev, await the beining of their trial in the main city court in St. Petersburg on March, 22, 2011. Voina, whose members have spent time in jail for some of their stunts, won a major art prize for painting a 60-metre phallus on a bridge in Saint Petersburg, organizers said on April 8, 2011 AFP PHOTO / KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV (Photo credit should read KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP/Getty Images)
TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY MARINA KORENEVAParticipants of 'Voina' (The War) radical art-group, Oleg Vorotnikov (R) and Leonid Nikolaev, await the beining of their trial in the main city court in St. Petersburg on March, 22, 2011. Voina, whose members have spent time in jail for some of their stunts, won a major art prize for painting a 60-metre phallus on a bridge in Saint Petersburg, organizers said on April 8, 2011 AFP PHOTO / KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV (Photo credit should read KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP/Getty Images)

If anyone would want to steer clear of the Russian legal system you'd think it would be the anarchist art collective Voina, whose members are routinely jailed for provocations like painting a 210-foot penis on a St. Petersburg drawbridge and overturning police cars. Voina (translating to "war" in English) openly rejects the rule of law, yet they have recently taken to the Moscow courts to sue filmmaker Andrey Gryazev for his 2012 documentary about the group, "Tomorrow."

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