In St. Petersburg, the police detained members of the Yav art group who were trying to draw graffiti in the form of the inscription “Goolag. How to get out? This is reported by OVD-Info with reference to the leader of the art group Anastasia Vladychkina.

Group member Alexander Voronin, his assistant Nikolai Stekolnikov, German ZDF journalist Roman Schell and cameraman Stanislav were detained. The detainees were taken to the 77th police department.

Voronin and Stekolnikov are charged with petty hooliganism (Article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation).

The artists did not have time to complete the graffiti; before the arrest, they applied only a stencil. The model "Yav" published in their social networks.