Artist flees Russia after paintings of Putin, others with lingerie, breasts and tattoos draw Kremlin ire. - Vocativ
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A prominent St. Petersburg artist said he was hightailing it out of Russia after police raided a local gallery and seized four of his paintings, one of which (Travesty, below) portrays President Vladimir Putin in drag, gingerly touching the hair of a lingerie-clad Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
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