Peter Pavlensky left Russia

The actionist artist Pyotr Pavlensky announced that he emigrates from Russia and asks for political asylum in France.

The shelter also asks for his ally Oksana Shalygin and their children, who left Russia along with them on December 15 last year, told Pavlensky on the air of the Ukrainian television channel Gromadske .

According to the artist, before that they were detained and delivered to the Investigative Committee (SK), where they were interrogated for several hours as part of a pre -investigation audit under Art. 132 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("violent actions of a sexual nature").

“This is no longer a political article, this is an article that implies up to ten years in prison. - explained Pavlensky. “We were shown how we will be eliminated from the political context: either regime camps for up to ten years, or we leave the limits of the borders of passport control.”

The artist called the emigration "the best outcome, from what could be."

PS Pavlensky said to the rain to the rain that the basis for the pre -investigation of his and Shalygina was the statement received from the actress of theater.doc Anastasia elephant.

PPS details of the events that became the basis for checking the UK was shared with the “New Gazeta” by the "theater.doc" Vsevolod Lisovsky.

According to him, Pavlensky, Shalygin and two unknown people beat the actor of the "theater.doc", who met with an elephant, and in December they tried to rape and "caused stab wounds, non -abyss for life." Pavlensky confirms that Slonina was visiting them, but the commission of violence in her respect denies.