It would be just awesome if their antics were just restricted to that.
A couple were actually funny, like painting the skull and crossbones on the State Duma building. Others were just juvenile, like painting a dick on the St.-Petersburg drawbridge (though one of Russia's state arts organizations bizarrely gave them a prize for that).
Unfortunately, some are just nasty. Like the performance in the cathedral. Or when they threw a live cat at McDonald's workers to "celebrate" Labor Day. That is arguably assault and certainly animal cruelty; certainly it has fuck-all to do with improving the position of the proletariat. Other actions were unarguably criminal, like overturning police cars in their "palace revolution" performance. Their head got 3 or 6 months for that as I recall. He'd have almost certainly got more if he'd done that in the US.
A couple were actually funny, like painting the skull and crossbones on the State Duma building. Others were just juvenile, like painting a dick on the St.-Petersburg drawbridge (though one of Russia's state arts organizations bizarrely gave them a prize for that).
Unfortunately, some are just nasty. Like the performance in the cathedral. Or when they threw a live cat at McDonald's workers to "celebrate" Labor Day. That is arguably assault and certainly animal cruelty; certainly it has fuck-all to do with improving the position of the proletariat. Other actions were unarguably criminal, like overturning police cars in their "palace revolution" performance. Their head got 3 or 6 months for that as I recall. He'd have almost certainly got more if he'd done that in the US.