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Article: Art or Pornography?; Moscow Theater Director Tests Limits of Russia's New Freedom of Creativity
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- The Washington Post
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- August 10, 1995
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Kiril Ganin describes himself, not a little proudly, as a
"theatrical pervert." To his friends and supporters, who include some
prominent Russian theater directors, he is an erotic artist of some
promise.
The Russian government takes a dimmer view. Ganin, the federal
prosecutor says, is a pornographer who belongs in prison.
Ganin makes an unlikely controversial figure, especially one who
now stands in the midst of a heated debate over art, pornography, the
law and new public morals in Russia.
Scraggly-haired, sloppily dressed and prone to sudden bouts of the
giggles, usually provoked by his own asides, Ganin, 28, was trained
as an architect. For his final project he designed a large Orthodox ...