The protest artist who set fire to the former headquarters of the KGB was just set free

MOSCOW -- The Russian conceptual artist who set fire to the Soviet-era headquarters of the K.G.B. and then turned his criminal trial into a piece of performance art was freed on Wednesday, after a Moscow judge found him guilty of vandalism but sentenced him to pay a fine, rather than prison time. Petr Pavlensky, the 32-year old political activist, who has cut […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/11/09/this-protest-artist-lit-the-doors-of-russias-security-service-headquarters-on-fire/