FSB demanded Pavlensky 481 thousand rubles for the burning of the door -. RBC

Russian Federal Security Service has filed a lawsuit against the St. Petersburg artist Peter Pavlensky for damaged door FSB building in Lubyanka. The agency “RIA Novosti” reported in the Meshchansky Court, where the trial over Pavlensky.

«Head of the Legal Department of the military unit 55002 Dmitry Kazakov asked at the meeting to involve civil suit to Pavlensky in the amount of RUB 465 481 kDa . “, – said the agency interlocutor

FSB accuses Pavlensky in damage” cultural heritage -. the door of the NKVD-KGB-FSB building. ” According to the examination, the building is valuable not only as part of an ensemble of XIX – early XX centuries, but also because it contained the arrested workers of culture and art, the military and politicians

In November 2015 Peter Pavlensky held an action “. threat “, in which he set fire to the door of the FSB building in Lubyanka. Immediately thereafter Pavlensky detained and taken to the police station at the Meshchansky District on suspicion of disorderly conduct. Later in respect Pavlensky opened a criminal case under article “Vandalism”. Tagansky court decided to send the artist under arrest.

The very Pavlensky explained in court his actions by saying that the FSB condemns fabricated criminal cases of so-called terrorists. “People set fire to ballot boxes and they were accused of terrorism” – said in the court painter

In March consequence retrain Pavlensky criminal case the article “the destruction of the cultural heritage.”. In contrast to the previous article “vandalism” current article implies a longer term of imprisonment -. Up to six years

Pavlensky summer 2012 sewed his mouth and went to the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg with a poster in support of Pussy Riot. In the spring of 2013 the artist held a rally called “carcass”, during which he was in the “cocoon” of barbed wire at the entrance to the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly. In November of the same year during the “lock” Pavlensky nailed his genitals to the cobblestones on Red Square near the mausoleum. The action was timed to the Day of Police.