Organizers of the exhibition "Forbidden Art - 2006" are fined. Tagansky Moscow court on Monday sentenced Andrey Erofeev (former head of the department of the latest trends of the Tretyakov Gallery) and Yuri Samodurov (former director of the Sakharov Museum) in fines about twelve thousand dollars totally. The court found them guilty of inciting hatred and enmity as well as humiliation of human dignity by using his official position.
And here's the background. In 2006, Erofeev made an exhibition investigating the issue of censorship in modern Russia. He collected works which were taken from different shows at different times. There were screens with the notices written on them. This exhibition caused the criminal case against the curator. The prosecutor demanded three years in prison for him. You can see the pictures of this exhibition here.
The case has caused a wide public resonance. Here're some of the recent reactions. Artists Ilya and Emilia Kabakov compared the situation with the "Bulldozer Exhibition" of Soviet times. They began to doubt whether or not to do their retrospective show in St. Petersburg. Gallery owner Marat Gelman announced that will gather in his gallery exactly the same forbidden show if Erofeev and Samodurov are sent to the colony. Some opposite political organizations gathered the rally to hold them.
Yesterday, at the last day of the trial, the sympathizer of defendants carried into the courtroom thousands of cockroaches and released them. Thus, they expressed their protest against the "cockroach court." The subsequent fate of insects is unknown) | 
