by Jon Lackman | 27 July 2010 | Contemporary
From The Moscow News, an update to the story of the censored curators:
Moscow’s Tagansky District Court convicted prominent museum curators Yury Samodurov and Andrei Yerofeyev of “inciting hatred and denigrating human dignity” by staging a controversial art exhibit – but allowed them to avoid a jail term, ordering them instead to pay 350,000 roubles ($11,500) in fines. The verdict held that the exhibition subjected Christians to “psychological trauma,” “moral suffering” and “denigrated their human dignity”. Judge Svetlana Aleksandrova also slammed the curators for their “cynical, reckless attitude toward the religious feelings of Orthodox believers” in knowingly selecting artwork previously banned from public display.
