An underground group of Ukrainian artists is apparently trying to ease the tense atmosphere in the eastern city of Donetsk by putting up cardboard cut-outs of gunmen on walls and fences. The life-size cut-outs make fun of the threatening presence of pro-Russian separatists patrolling the streets, Ukrainian news website Podrobnosti reports. The caricatures of separatist leaders with guns, and skeletons lobbing grenades, started to appear around the city in the middle of July. The group, Murzilka, gets its name from a Soviet-era childrens magazine. The artists say they want to show people that the rebels are not here to stay and there is resistance to their presence in the city. The guerrilla artists try to remain anonymous as as some of them fear for their lives. But they have a website where they show how they produce their art. bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-28583147
Posted on: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 13:45:43 +0000
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