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They put it out the door
The Moscow City Court has been dismissed by the appeal of the verdict of the verdict to the artist Peter Pavlensky for the “Threat” campaign with a fabric of the FSB building in Lubyanka. This was reported to the "Frances" by lawyer Olga Dinze.
The decision of the Meshchansky district court on a fine of the artist and compensation for the damage was left without change and entered into legal force. The defense insisted on the abolition of the conviction and the issuance of the acquittal.
On the night of November 9, 2015, Pavlensky doused the front door of the entrance No. 1 of the Russian FSB building with gasoline and set it on fire. “The Lubyanka’s burning door is a glove that society throws into the face of a terrorist threat ... But terrorism can only exist due to the animal instinct of fear. To go against this human instinct forces an unconditional protective reflex,” the action said in the manifesto.
The artist, standing in front of the burning door, was almost immediately detained. The next day he was arrested . About six months Pavlensky was kept in the capital's pre-trial detention center-2 Butyrka; In early May, he was transferred to SIZO-4 "Bear" .
Initially, the artist was charged with part 2 of Article 214 of the Criminal Code (vandalism based on ideological hatred), which provides for up to three years of the colony. At the end of March, however, it became known about the retraining of the case to part 1 of Article 243 of the Criminal Code, which suggests the same maximum term.
From the moment of initiation of the case, Pavlensky himself achieved his retraining to Article 205 of the Criminal Code (terrorist attack). He explained his demand by the fact that it was this article that the defendants in the Crimean prisoners and the Crimean prisoners, who were also charged with arson, were charged.
On June 8, the Meshchansky District Court of Moscow found Pavlensky guilty of "damage to the cultural heritage object" and sentenced to a fine of 500 thousand rubles ( 
According to Pavlensky, he will not pay a fine. “There was no crime - there is nothing to pay,” said the artist. The court of Meshchansky, and the verdict of Meshchansky. ”
On June 6, during the debate of the parties, the prosecutor asked the court to sentenced the artist to a fine of two million rubles, softening the sentence of up to 1.5 million rubles with the offset of the deadline. The defense of the artist asked to introduce a diploma awarded to Pavlensky for the “Threat” campaign and signed by 120 artists. According to the colleagues of the actionist, the “threat” campaign is a “gesture of contemporary art”, and the grounds for pursuing the artist are an “obvious mistake of the investigation organs in the assessment of the act”.
On June 16, lawyers Olga and Dmitry Dinze, representing the interests of Pavlensky, appealed the verdict . According to Dmitry Dinze, the court of first instance did not take into account the arguments of the defense that Pavlensky "is a political artist who exercises his art matter in the open spaces of the political art of Russia."
"The work of the corporateist Pavlensky was recognized and appreciated by the FSB officers, which confirms the significance of his art in the political space, and once again proves that the artist is not a criminal, a criminal, but a really recognized politicalist, including within the framework of the" threat, "the complaint was noted.