Spiritual scrapers

Petersburg is the legislator of street political art: any face of Navalny must be destroyed. Portraits of state defenses - inviolable

On the Petrograd side in the Pushkarsky garden, police officers collected evidence - they scrape paint from the portrait of Alexei Navalny, made in the graffiti style, and put it in a bag. Moreover, 300 meters from the transformer booth, on which the opposition was captured, on the firewall house No. 17 on Malaya Pushkarskaya Street, at the level of the fourth floor, a giant portrait of the speaker of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, the deputy of the uninstall Vyacheslav Makarov. He did not interest the police.

While the police lieutenant in gloves and a sanitary mask chopped samples of paint from the wall, the townspeople were in a hurry to make a selfie with the forbidden graffiti. Few managed-as soon as the policeman finished work, who had already shook their hands on the lighting of the illegal street art, representatives of Lenenergo (they constantly draw on their transformer booths) painted the face of a disgraced politician. However, photographs from this rapid promotion of disobedience circled all social networks.

The correspondent of Novye asked the youth who watched the malyars whether they want to take pictures with the portrait of Makarov, which no one was attempting to. There were no people who wanted to. Then the “New” spoke with the residents of house No. 17 in Malaya Pushkarskaya and found out that no one agreed on the placement of the poster Makarov on their building.

- Yes, I generally saw him for the first time when you told me! - They told us in the apartment 14.

The same bewilderment-and what, we have to ask permission from us-the residents of the rest of the apartments also expressed. They, apparently, are not aware that in January 2020 the Supreme Court made an explanation:

Any advertising located on the facade of an apartment building without the consent of the owners of the premises and the relevant agreement is illegal.

And if advertising is placed on the house, then the owners of the apartments should receive either live money or deductions from expenses for common spending. The poster with the image of Vyacheslav Makarov “This is our victory”, where he congratulates the townspeople from May 9, otherwise it cannot be called political advertising - two days ago he submitted documents to participate in the primaries to the State Duma according to the lists of the United Russia party.

But none of the representatives of the housing services received tasks to fight with the image of a respected united Russia. In the housing and communal services No. 1 of the Petrograd district, to which the house belongs, they refused to comment on the poster of Makarov by phone. “Hanging and hanging, what do you need ?? - the woman said on the other end of the wire, refusing to introduce herself. - Well, you compared with Navalny !!! He is the icon ( Makarov . - Ed. ), And this hero is still! Of course, they will paint over Navalny. ”

The press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region refused to comment on street painting, but did not deny that the authors of the portrait of Navalny, if calculated, could be held accountable.

Update from 29:04.2021
According to RIA Novosti, with reference to a source in the law enforcement agencies, the St. Petersburg police launched a criminal case under an article on vandalism for political reasons from an graffiti with Alexei Navalny (part 2 of article 214 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).