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The scandal over a major exhibition of Russian Sots Art

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Obviously the issue here is not the pictures, but the fact that the Russian state is undergoing a return to controlled ethics. It is moving with a new fervor to endorse those artists who are prepared to serve it, and to drive underground those who value their freedom. The twilight of enlightenment - there\'s no other way to put it. The state made its first attempt to proclaim its artistic sympathies and antipathies four years ago. At that time it involved sharp criticism of nonconformist writers - me among them - by the pro-Kremlin youth movement \"Moving Together.\" But those were still what Nadezhda Mandelstam, the widow of the great poet, called the \"time of vegetarians\" - the liberal mood had not yet died and had to be taken into account. The scandal was quelled.

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