"I woke up to someone hitting me on the head." FSB and artists
Contour fair in Nizhny Novgorod This spring, the artistic community in Russia was agitated by a wave of searches: security forces came to artists, their relatives and museum directors in seven cities - Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Voronezh, Perm, Yekaterinburg and Samara. Over the course of three days, approximately 30 people were searched, including celebrities and characters little known even within the art community. Some of them chose not to announce the incident publicly.