LOCAL ARTISTS
In 2023, when thirty- something artist Igor Babkin was teaching an art class to children in Bolshoi Kamen, Siberia, he heard his students make remarks that glorified the Ukraine war. A pacifist, he told his students to view them with humanity, but his statements did not align with official propaganda.
Going home sometime later, two men attacked him, punching and kicking him brutally.
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