BOROVSK , April 19 — Retired engineer Vladimir Ovchinnikov has spent decades painting murals in his small town south of Moscow but finds some of his art is not welcome after Russia’s conflict with Ukraine.
Moving briskly, he pulled out a black pencil and began to draw a dove over the whitewash, until another local man approached and threatened to call the police.“At my age, I’m not afraid of anything,” he said in an interview at his home. “If there are any complaints against me, no one will suffer.” Ovchinnikov is well known for his art in and around Borovsk, and one of his drawings dedicated to the town’s liberation from Nazi troops in 1942 adorns the walls of the town’s conscription office.
His art has long had a political edge. In 2003, Ovchinnikov came across a book with the names of victims of Soviet repression in the Kaluga region — where Borovsk is located — listing who were either shot or sent to the Gulag.He launched campaigns to have many of the victims rehabilitated — a legal process where they are posthumously acquitted of any crimes — but faced numerous rejections.
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