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Art and Protest in Putin's Russia edited by Lena Jonson culture propagandaThe Pussy Riot protest, and the subsequent heavy handed treatment of the protestors, grabbed the headlines, but this was not an isolated instance of art being noticeably critical of the regime. As this book, based on extensive original research, shows, there has been gradually emerging over recent decades a significant counter culture in the art world which satirises and ridicules the regime and the values it represents, at the same time putting