To defeat the gates of hell

In Moscow, the actor-activist Pyotr Pavlensky was detained, Mediazona reports . He held a performance with a fabride of the doors of the main FSB building on Lubyanka.

At night, Pavlensky doused the wooden doors with gasoline from the canister and set them on fire. He called his action "threat."

Less than a minute later, the protection of the building detained Pavlensky and the random correspondent of the rain, Vladimir Romensky and Freenser journalist Nigin Beroeva. At first they were taken to the FSB reception, and then delivered to the Meshchansky police department. Five hours later, journalists were released. According to Beroya, they took explanatory ones. They wrote that they did not know about the content of the action and the place of its holding.

On Pavlensky himself, a protocol was drawn up under Article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (petty hooliganism). The police said that the journalists were "invited" as witnesses.

Lawyer Olga Chavdar met with Pavlensky in the police department. According to the artist, the FSB officers demanded that he answer if he wanted anyone to death. The audit materials are in the district prosecutor's office. The procedural decision has not yet been made.

"The doors of the 1st entrance of the FSB building on Lubyanka were partially burned or covered with soot. On the asphalt are white traces of the fire extinguisher," reported journalist Vladimir Bartholomeev.

In the morning, on behalf of Pavlensky, a video recording was published. “The burning door of the Lubyanka is a glove that the society throws into the face of a terrorist threat,” the artist said in a statement. “The Federal Security Service acts by the method of continuous terror and holds power over 146,000,000 people. Fear turns free people into a sticky mass of disparate bodies. The threat of inevitable reprisal hangs over everyone who is within reach External surveillance of conversations and borders of passport control.

The action of Peter Pavlensky "Threat":

Pavlensky is known as a bright figure of political art. For his shares, he was repeatedly brought to administrative responsibility. For the action "Freedom" held on February 23, 2014 in St. Petersburg (

Video ) a criminal case has been instituted against the artist under part 2 of Article 214 of the Criminal Code (vandalism committed by a group of persons, as well as based on ideological hatred or enmity). Five people participated in the action. Early in the morning, even before the sunrise, they deployed on the small stable bridge, opposite the Temple of the Savior -on -Blood, two flags - the black and state flag of Ukraine - laid out and set fire to the autoles and begin to knock with sticks on metal sheets.

Currently, the trial of Pavlensky is ongoing .