Russia acquits feminist artist on trial for pornography
Associated PressMOSCOW — A court in Russia’s far east on Friday handed a rare acquittal to a feminist artist who was charged with disseminating pornography after she shared artwork online depicting female bodies. The charges against activist Yulia Tsvetkova, 29, in the far eastern city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur had elicited international outrage, with human rights groups linking her prosecution to the Kremlin’s aggressive promotion of “traditional family values.” Russia’s most prominent women’s rights groups have faced crackdown in recent years. Tsvetkova’s trial started in April last year, eight months after Russian President Vladimir Putin signed constitutional amendments that outlawed same-sex marriage and tasked the government with “preserving traditional family values.” Tsvetkova ran a children’s theater and was a vocal advocate of feminism and LGBT rights. In a rare interview last month, a distraught Tsvetkova said that “my life has been destroyed completely.” “It’s not a metaphor, it’s reality,” she told British broadcaster the BBC.
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