Word: erofeyev
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...most high-profile case is that of Andrey Erofeyev, former head of contemporary art at Moscow's State Tretyakov Gallery. In 2008 he was indicted and charged with inciting religious hatred after putting on an exhibition a year earlier at the Andrey Sakharov Museum in Moscow called "Forbidden Art 2006." The paintings depicted in the show were considered by authorities to be insulting to the Orthodox Church - one of the works showed a crucified Lenin, another portrayed Mickey Mouse as Jesus. Erofeyev was fired from his job at the Tretyakov in 2008, and his trial is ongoing. "Artists should...
...TITLE OF ALFRED SCHNITTKE'S LIFE WITH AN IDIOT (Sony Classical) evokes a world of Russian literature -- Dostoyevsky, Gogol, Pushkin -- but the real impetus for this new opera by Russia's finest living composer is a powerful short story by the former underground author Victor Erofeyev. Any political resonance in the tale of an idiot named Vova (Lenin's nickname), who moves in with a hapless couple and destroys their lives, is, of course, purely intentional. Schnittke limns the moral and social breakdown of "I" and his "Wife" in a score of terrifying, eclectic intensity. The first-rate performance, recorded...
Shortly after President Nixon named former CIA Director Richard Helms as Ambassador to Iran, his Soviet counterpart in Teheran, Vladimir Erofeyev, was at a formal dinner party with Iranian Prime Minister Amir Abbas Hoveida. "What do you think about the United States sending you a spy as ambassador?" Erofeyev asked Hoveida. "Well," replied the Prime Minister coolly, "they are at least sending us their No. 1 spy. You can't be more than...
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