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IN JANUARY 2003 vandals entered an art exhibition in Moscow and used spray paint to destroy many of the "offensive" paintings. It's not the first such incident in the annals of modern art, but this time the story had several peculiarly Russian twists. The gallery was part of the Andrei Sakharov Museum, set up in 1994 to preserve the legacy of Russia's best-known human rights activist. The exhibition, titled "Caution! Religion," was intended, the curators explained, to get people to focus on the danger of religious fanaticism and prejudice in a country where only Russian Orthodoxy has any firm legal status. The vandals were acolytes of the Russian Orthodox Church. After a brief investigation, charges against them were dropped on the grounds that the exhibition was indeed offensive. Instead, museum administrators were put on trial. Last week a judge found the museum's executive director, Yuri Samodurov, guilty of "inciting hatred"; also convicted were a colleague and an exhibiting artist. All were fined. Latest Editorials
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