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Petr Pavlenskuy in front of the headquarters of the Russian secret service just moments before he's arrested. Photo published by Varlamov.ru
RUSSIA 11/10/2015
Artist arrested for setting fire to Russian secret service HQ
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Andrei Erofeiev
A performance artist managed to strike at the heart of Russia's security establishment this week. Petr Pavlensky set fire to the doors of Russia’s secret service headquarters (the FSB) and even had time to pose for a photo with a petrol canister before he was arrested on Sunday night. Our Observer says the artist was trying to denounce the FSB's increasing encroachment on Russian society.
The Loubianka is the historic headquarters of the Russian secret service. Once known as the KGB, it was renamed the FSB after the fall of the Soviet Union. According to Pavlensky, the infamous spy service is responsible for depriving Russians of their freedom: "The threat of immediate reprisals hovers over citizens who know that they risk being spied on, having their phone calls recorded, or even being eavesdropped on." The commentary accompanies a video showing Pavlensky's latest exploit, uploaded to a Vimeo account in his name created barely hours before he set fire to the door. The account appears to have been taken offline since then. The artist accuses the Russian secret service of using "unending terror" to "hold power over 146 million people."
Pavlensky was arrested moments after setting fire to the door, as well as two journalists who were filhming and taking photos of him. The two journalists were released on Monday morning. Pavlensky is accused of vandalism and could face up to five years in prison if convicted.
Andrei Erofeev is an arts curator who collects contemporary works of art. He was arrested and convicted back in 2010 for organising an exhibition of artwork that had been refused by other museums for fear of angering Russia's Orthodox Church. Erofeev, who knows Pavlensky personally, explains the motives behind his latest stunt.
"Nowadays, he's the only person left who dares to carry out these types of extravagant stunts"
Andrei Erofeiev
What Petr Pavlensky was trying to criticise is the disproportionate role that the FSB plays in Russian politics. Putin - who once served in the KGB - is surrounded by former members of the FSB. Many ministers, advisors, and members of the nouveau riche were once part of the secret service. Pavlensky's gesture is a declaration of war against the secret service and what the establishment stands for.
He forms part of Russia's contemporary movement of radical performance artists, like the punk group p*ssy Riot. But nowadays, he's almost the only person left who dares to carry out these types of extravagant stunts. It has become very dangerous to protest against the regime, especially in any way that's deemed artistic and provocative. For example, in 2014, members of p*ssy Riot were beaten up during a protest during the Olympic Games in Sotchi.
Pavlensky stands out from most other artists in the sense that he never tries to flee after one of his performances. Instead, he waits until he's arrested. That's what happened on Sunday. Once he'd set fire to the door, he waited outside the FSB's headquarters until the police arrived to arrest him. That's a key part of the performance: for him, what's important isn't so much the action itself, but the reaction it provokes from the authorities and society at large. In this instance, his gesture was calculated to denounce what he views as the secret service's ubiquitous power and reach. But he also sparked another debate on social media. People are asking how such an important building could have been so poorly protected, given the ease with which he set fire to it.
This stunt is only the latest in a catalogue of incidents aimed at defying Russian strongman Vladimir Putin. In 2013, Pavlensky attracted international attention when he nailed his scrotum to Red Square in central Moscow to protest against police misconduct. He's also sewn his lips together in support of p*ssy Riot, whose members were arrested and sent to forced labour camps for having played an anti-Putin punk rock song in Moscow’s cathedral. In another cringe-inducing stunt, Pavlensky cut off part of his ear lobe to protest the use of forced psychiatry on Russian dissidents. He could also face up to three years in jail for another performance held in Saint Petersburg last year. During that stunt, he and his friends burned tyres and waved Ukrainian flags to simulate the Maidan protests in Kiev that led to the overthrow of the Ukraine’s president.
Artist arrested for setting fire to Russian secret service HQ
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Russia plans a 'hybrid warfare' campaign aimed at destabilising Europe, says Bulgarian President
President Plevneliev fears that cyber attacks stem from Moscow
A 10.5-meter high monument of a Soviet soldier draped with a red cloak in the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv Getty
Russia has trained its sights on the Balkans to wage a “hybrid warfare” campaign aimed at destabilising the whole of Europe, the President of Bulgaria has warned. He demands that the EU and Nato do more to counter the rising threat of Russian aggression.
Rosen Plevneliev accuses Moscow of launching massive cyber attacks on Bulgaria’s government institutions and increasingly testing Bulgaria’s airspace in the wake of the annexation last year of Crimea, on the other side of the Black Sea.
“The very efficient and secure way for Russia to destabilise Europe is through the Balkans, so that is what Mr Putin is focusing on,” he told The Independent on Sunday in the capital, Sofia. “Our message to the EU, the Secretary General of Nato, our partners and Western allies is that the Balkans should be in the very heart of European security policy. Do more for us in order to do more for yourselves.”
The Bulgarian President’s comments came after he attended a Nato summit of nine Eastern European member states in the Romanian capital Bucharest on Wednesday, at which leaders expressed concerns that the “security environment was deteriorating” as a result of Russia’s “aggressive and unpredictable” behaviour.
Bulgarian President Rosen Plevenliev has accused Moscow of launching massive cyber attacks on Bulgaria’s government institutions
“Starting on 25 October, websites of the council of ministers of parliament and of the central election committee have been heavily attacked through cyber capabilities in an unprecedented way,” he said.
Pointing the finger firmly at Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin, he said: “There are very few countries in the world that can organise such attacks.”
Mr Plevneliev added that Russian military was stepping up incursions into the “security zone” airspace over the Black Sea. “Since the Crimean crisis we have seen 10 times more violations of Russian military planes,” he said.
He says that the attacks formed the latest assault in what is widely described as hybrid warfare on Western countries using direct and indirect aggression.
Mr Plevneliev said Nato senior partners were not being forceful enough in responding to Russia’s “hybrid warfare” approach that, he says, is focused on the Balkans. He also criticised European countries for failing to get to grips with events in the Middle East and North Africa as the Syrian conflagration threatens to escalate further.
“Everyone should be alerted to what happens in Syria because of a crush of global and regional powers, which Mr Putin is saying is about the world moving to a new world order away from that of being dominated by one superpower,” he said.
Reflecting on European countries’ collective failure to act decisively on Syria and the broader ensuing refugee problem that has since engulfed Europe, the Bulgarian President said: “The EU has to get all those powers together on the table because the EU is most affected by this crisis, and should not let it go until there is a solution that is peaceful and is balanced.
“The EU has to believe itself that it is a global power. It is the biggest economy in the world and should be one of the biggest players in foreign policy in the world.”
On Syria, Mr Plevneliev called on its neighbour Turkey, which has been hit by a round of violence in the build-up to last month’s election, to take a more proactive stance on Syria. He says Turkey’s re-elected President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has so far distanced himself from Syrian intervention despite recent alleged Islamic State bomb attacks in Turkey, needed to do more.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan should lead Turkey to a greater role in Syria, according to the Bulgarian President
“Turkey is a regional power so Mr Erdogan has a very important role to play for a solution in Syria,” he said, adding that Iran, Saudi Arabia, US and Russia needed to be at the table for any meaningful talks to end the country’s civil war.
Mr Plevneliev accused Western leaders, and especially EU member states, of failing to act until a crisis had fully erupted. “Look at the immigration crisis, and many other fires that are coming too,” he said. “We wake up too late. The EU today has to deal with a record number of crises, but just registers those crises, and does not solve them.”
On immigration, he attacked European countries for compounding the crisis by failing to register refugees, which he says only Bulgaria and Germany had been doing in accordance with the Dublin Regulation. “Any refugee that comes in Bulgaria will be registered. This is not the case with Greece or Italy, nor is it the case with Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Serbia, Hungary or Austria.”
Mr Plevneliev says Bulgaria’s strict policy meant refugees were now avoiding the country, which has received 40,000 so far and is expecting 20,000 by the end of 2015, but did not concede that Bulgaria’s mountainous border area and status as the EU’s poorest state might also be factors. “Everyone should stick to the rules and not shift the refugees to the next border,” he said.
In September, Bulgaria’s Deputy Prime Minister, Meglena Kuneva, suggested that any agreement on a refugee quota be linked to admission to the Schengen European free movement zone. Mr Plevneliev dismisses this idea, saying: “Bulgaria feels disappointed that, along with Romania, having been technically ready and complying to all required standards, we have been rejected.” Having previously approached the European Commission and European Parliament three times each, before being blocked by the Netherlands, he said he was cautiously waiting for a response to another attempt at admission.
“It is probably another member state [that may block the approach], even though everybody else is saying you’re ready,” he said.
Access to the Schengen zone would vastly improve the country’s economic prospects, says Mr Plevneliev. With a GDP of £36bn, it is proportionately the poorest performer in the bloc, even though Mr Plevneliev says wealth has doubled in the past 10 years and increased fivefold since the last days of communist rule.
“Our country was always weak when it was isolated,” he added.
The country has to contend with what Mr Plevneliev concedes have been high levels of corruption that he says he is addressing, and the need for improved energy efficiency which new investment in nuclear “may mean negotiating the future with the Chinese”. But he added: “I don’t think this [negotiation] is now active, as we are producing enough energy for the moment.”
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Mr Plevneliev says he is extremely concerned by the development, recognising that for all the diplomatic efforts on the world stage, nothing can fell a politician like a domestic crisis. “I am worried by this. I’ve seen it before when we have paid a high price for instability,” he said.
The former engineer says he will do whatever is required to settle the issue. “I am not just the President. I am an engineer, and engineers know one thing: if you want to solve a problem you have to point at a problem.”
Russia plans a 'hybrid warfare campaign aimed at destabilising Europe'
President Plevneliev fears that cyber attacks stem from Moscow
- Lawrie Holmes Sofia
- Saturday 14 November 2015
A 10.5-meter high monument of a Soviet soldier draped with a red cloak in the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv Getty
Russia has trained its sights on the Balkans to wage a “hybrid warfare” campaign aimed at destabilising the whole of Europe, the President of Bulgaria has warned. He demands that the EU and Nato do more to counter the rising threat of Russian aggression.
Rosen Plevneliev accuses Moscow of launching massive cyber attacks on Bulgaria’s government institutions and increasingly testing Bulgaria’s airspace in the wake of the annexation last year of Crimea, on the other side of the Black Sea.
“The very efficient and secure way for Russia to destabilise Europe is through the Balkans, so that is what Mr Putin is focusing on,” he told The Independent on Sunday in the capital, Sofia. “Our message to the EU, the Secretary General of Nato, our partners and Western allies is that the Balkans should be in the very heart of European security policy. Do more for us in order to do more for yourselves.”
The Bulgarian President’s comments came after he attended a Nato summit of nine Eastern European member states in the Romanian capital Bucharest on Wednesday, at which leaders expressed concerns that the “security environment was deteriorating” as a result of Russia’s “aggressive and unpredictable” behaviour.
Bulgarian President Rosen Plevenliev has accused Moscow of launching massive cyber attacks on Bulgaria’s government institutions
“Starting on 25 October, websites of the council of ministers of parliament and of the central election committee have been heavily attacked through cyber capabilities in an unprecedented way,” he said.
Pointing the finger firmly at Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin, he said: “There are very few countries in the world that can organise such attacks.”
Mr Plevneliev added that Russian military was stepping up incursions into the “security zone” airspace over the Black Sea. “Since the Crimean crisis we have seen 10 times more violations of Russian military planes,” he said.
He says that the attacks formed the latest assault in what is widely described as hybrid warfare on Western countries using direct and indirect aggression.
Mr Plevneliev said Nato senior partners were not being forceful enough in responding to Russia’s “hybrid warfare” approach that, he says, is focused on the Balkans. He also criticised European countries for failing to get to grips with events in the Middle East and North Africa as the Syrian conflagration threatens to escalate further.
“Everyone should be alerted to what happens in Syria because of a crush of global and regional powers, which Mr Putin is saying is about the world moving to a new world order away from that of being dominated by one superpower,” he said.
Reflecting on European countries’ collective failure to act decisively on Syria and the broader ensuing refugee problem that has since engulfed Europe, the Bulgarian President said: “The EU has to get all those powers together on the table because the EU is most affected by this crisis, and should not let it go until there is a solution that is peaceful and is balanced.
“The EU has to believe itself that it is a global power. It is the biggest economy in the world and should be one of the biggest players in foreign policy in the world.”
On Syria, Mr Plevneliev called on its neighbour Turkey, which has been hit by a round of violence in the build-up to last month’s election, to take a more proactive stance on Syria. He says Turkey’s re-elected President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has so far distanced himself from Syrian intervention despite recent alleged Islamic State bomb attacks in Turkey, needed to do more.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan should lead Turkey to a greater role in Syria, according to the Bulgarian President
“Turkey is a regional power so Mr Erdogan has a very important role to play for a solution in Syria,” he said, adding that Iran, Saudi Arabia, US and Russia needed to be at the table for any meaningful talks to end the country’s civil war.
Mr Plevneliev accused Western leaders, and especially EU member states, of failing to act until a crisis had fully erupted. “Look at the immigration crisis, and many other fires that are coming too,” he said. “We wake up too late. The EU today has to deal with a record number of crises, but just registers those crises, and does not solve them.”
On immigration, he attacked European countries for compounding the crisis by failing to register refugees, which he says only Bulgaria and Germany had been doing in accordance with the Dublin Regulation. “Any refugee that comes in Bulgaria will be registered. This is not the case with Greece or Italy, nor is it the case with Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Serbia, Hungary or Austria.”
Mr Plevneliev says Bulgaria’s strict policy meant refugees were now avoiding the country, which has received 40,000 so far and is expecting 20,000 by the end of 2015, but did not concede that Bulgaria’s mountainous border area and status as the EU’s poorest state might also be factors. “Everyone should stick to the rules and not shift the refugees to the next border,” he said.
In September, Bulgaria’s Deputy Prime Minister, Meglena Kuneva, suggested that any agreement on a refugee quota be linked to admission to the Schengen European free movement zone. Mr Plevneliev dismisses this idea, saying: “Bulgaria feels disappointed that, along with Romania, having been technically ready and complying to all required standards, we have been rejected.” Having previously approached the European Commission and European Parliament three times each, before being blocked by the Netherlands, he said he was cautiously waiting for a response to another attempt at admission.
“It is probably another member state [that may block the approach], even though everybody else is saying you’re ready,” he said.
Access to the Schengen zone would vastly improve the country’s economic prospects, says Mr Plevneliev. With a GDP of £36bn, it is proportionately the poorest performer in the bloc, even though Mr Plevneliev says wealth has doubled in the past 10 years and increased fivefold since the last days of communist rule.
“Our country was always weak when it was isolated,” he added.
The country has to contend with what Mr Plevneliev concedes have been high levels of corruption that he says he is addressing, and the need for improved energy efficiency which new investment in nuclear “may mean negotiating the future with the Chinese”. But he added: “I don’t think this [negotiation] is now active, as we are producing enough energy for the moment.”
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Mr Plevneliev says he is extremely concerned by the development, recognising that for all the diplomatic efforts on the world stage, nothing can fell a politician like a domestic crisis. “I am worried by this. I’ve seen it before when we have paid a high price for instability,” he said.
The former engineer says he will do whatever is required to settle the issue. “I am not just the President. I am an engineer, and engineers know one thing: if you want to solve a problem you have to point at a problem.”
Russia plans a 'hybrid warfare campaign aimed at destabilising Europe'
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Putin is such a man
you sound really moist.
Putin isloating his country men as well as fukking up the money flow. Protect that pipeline at all causes breh even though your pilots are getting raped by rebels using american weapons.