RUSSIAN ART GROUP VOINA CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY FOR BURNING POLICE VEHICLE

The Russian art collective Voina announced yesterday it was responsible for breaking into a Saint Petersburg police station and using gasoline bombs to explode a police vehicle used to transport prisoners, reports Ellen Barry of the New York Times_. The Saint Petersburg police responded “skeptically,” noting the damage was “insignificant” and that “there were similar rumors of arson after a fire in August that forensics specialists determined had been caused by a short circuit.” A spokeswoman for the collective states the act was “a gift to all political prisoners of Russia.”