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21 Mar 2016, 19:09
A swiss human rights activist Almut Rembges blocks with her body the
entrance to the home of the 3 small Voina Family kids (while they’re
outside) 16 Mar 2016, 13:33
Here is a swiss human rights fighter Almut Rembges from an independent protest organization Black Box which helps refugees. Yesterday, March, 15, 2016, after months of suspecting kids in stealing her toilet paper from local wc, Almut Rembges attacked 6-year old Kasper, 4-year old Mama and hit their mother Russian artist Koza with 10-month old Troitsa on her hands while they were going for a walk. And then, as promised, Almut with two more Black Box members came upstairs to Koza and attacked her and Troitsa seriously, again. She knocked them down, took away this Koza’s tablet and tried to break it. Almut also promises, by threat of violence, to kick out on the street the whole family until the end of the week. 05 Nov 2015, 19:40
On September 22nd, 2015, Leonid Nikolaev a.k.a. Lyonya the Fucknut, a Voina activist, was found dead in Russia’s Domodedovo area outside Moscow.  Lyonya’s joining of the Voina collective marked a golden age for Russian political and artistic activism. Among Lyonya’s first successes was his frontal assault on a government car [the kind on top of which Russian officials flash their infamous flashing blue beacons to cut through traffic, often causing accidents and killing pedestrians along the way]. In that unprecedented choreographic maneuver just outside the Kremlin’s walls, Lyonya, donning a blue bucket over his head, sprinted across a busy thoroughfare and climbed over a sleek black government vehicle adorned with one of such beacons. There is still a video out there that captures the Blue Bucket stunt and shows Lyonya being chased by the car’s driver to the blare of cars and to the dismay of the mere mortals stuck in traffic that day. This protest action against Russia’s sharply divided class society and the privileged, government-backed omnipotence of the country’s bloodthirsty officials has been dubbed Lyonya the Fucknut For President and has become a powerful symbol of social activism to hundreds of thousands of fear-stricken citizens. Indeed, Lyonya soon moved on to join the leadership of Voina, quitting his job as a sales manager at one of Moscow’s sauna-heating-systems companies. Lyonya was also among the activists who, on the night of June 14th, 2010, painted a giant 65-meter penis on St. Petersburg’s Liteyny Drawbridge (‘Dick captured by FSB’ action), which, when raised, faced the local headquarters of the Federal Security Service (FSB). After completing this monumental Voina masterpiece in as little as 23 seconds, Lyonya rushed in to rescue his activist buddy from the hands of armed cops; and even though initially apprehended, he managed to escape the following day. In the meantime, the Russian media kept spinning stories of Lyonya’s alleged arrest and punishment,even as the Russian authorities’ bet on “the cold head, hot heart, and clean hands” (KGB’s old motto) acquires — with the help of a few buckets of emulsion paint and the bridge’s turning machinery — its symbolic significance for ages. His penchant for the absurd was again satisfied when Lyonya participated in Voina’s 2010 protest action ‘How to Snatch a Chicken’on the subject of the artist’s survival in the word of big censorship. In that action he played the role of an anarchist husband lending his wife a hand in shoplifting a chicken from a Moscow supermarket inside the wife’s vagina. This action became notoriously popular among pundits and critics from both camps, garnering countless mentions in the following years. Historic Palace Coup (‘Palace Revolution’ action) turned up the burner on Moscow’s simmering social discontent. In September of that year, a police vehicle was overturned by members of Voina. It all started with President Lyonya the Fucknut and his buddy rocking the car from side to side in an attempt to retrieve a boy’s football trapped underneath. The final scene in the footage in which Lyonya returns the ball to one-and-a-half-year-old activist Kasper won the hearts of even the most fervent hungerers for change. Did Voina manage to reform the police system on that cold September night?.. Apart from all these, Lyonya is widely credited with many other awesome protest gigs. He was a uniquely brave man. Steadfast, determined, reliable. The choicest of human material, a blueprint worthy of mass production. Dozens of times, he was apprehended by the police and kidnapped by Russia’s security services for his guerrilla protests. He faced Russia’s jail and endured, and his release was thanks to your efforts getting the moneyed Ms. Banksy to bankroll Lyonya’s bail. Any time in Lebedevka prison I was called in for questioning on a Voina-related case, it was with a sense of pleasure: I enjoyed the long, uncomfortable silences, knowing beyond any doubt that neither Lyonya nor I would ever snitch or roll. He had loyalty. After years of evading government persecution and lying low under assumed identities, Lyonya had embraced the joys of proletarian hard work. And one night, that hard work got the best of him. He crashed while trimming branches off some fucking trees. He went into a coma and died in reanimation. Lyonya is now in a morgue somewhere, and the cops are do not know. See you around, Lyonya! Oleg Vorotnikov 2015 Sept 24 Original publication: http://free-voina.org/post/129773489289/погиб-леонид-николаев 04 Oct 2015, 13:08
Voina DIY Handbook ‘Fuck by yourselves!’ Section 3. If your friend is in jail. Or how to cook chicken for a holiday December 31, 2011, St. Petersburg
The group broke into a police station in St. Petersburg on New Years Eve and used Molotov cocktails to set fire to a police car. Or rather, what they refer to as a 'trash truck’ or 'prison on wheels.’ The action was a New Years gift to the political prisoners of Russia.
In a statement, Voina’s president, known as Bucket Man, expressed the motives behind the piece: “Who the fuck needs art when there are trash vampires, trash trucks and werewolves in uniform about? This fire engulfing the trash must be an Eternal Fire… Let’s destroy all prisons! Freedom to all political prisoners! Feds don’t fuck us - we fuck feds! Happy New Year, comrades! Voina clarified that the destructive performance was not "art,” it was “beyond art.”
A Russian art group tested the boundaries between art and activism on New Year’s Eve when it broke into a St. Petersburg police station and used gasoline bombs to set fire to a police vehicle.
“We don’t have anything to do with any Russian political groups or platforms,” Oleg Vorotnikov, who founded Voina with his wife, Natalya Sokol, told the Post.
The group announced that they were responsible for the New Year’s Eve attack, but the the New York Times reports that the St. Petersburg police responded skeptically, despite a Voina video of the blaze. Though the video clearly shows a man placing a lit object under a vehicle, police said that similar fires have been caused by a short circuit.
The action was performed with the swiftness of their epic bridge graffiti dick bombing — the catalyst of Voina’s world fame. Armed with Molotov cocktails, Oleg Vorotnikov, Leonid Nikolayev, a pregnant Natalia Sokol and other activists burned up the “prison-on-wheels” used to detain protestors after opposition rallies, “prisons” that they and their friends are intimately familiar with.
“Voina is involved in developing a new political language with which to adequately address reality,” Leonid has once explained, introducing their ongoing series of extreme artistic performances that serve as guidance for survival in the Russian Federation. Chapter 1: “How to Snatch a Chicken: A Tale of How One Cunt fed the Whole of the Group Voina.” Chapter 2: “Fuck [It] Yourself!” (or the overturned cop car that almost landed them in jail for seven years.) And now, Chapter 3: “If Your Friend Is in Jail.” http://animalnewyork.com/2012/voina-art-group-torched-a-cop-vehicle/
“What do people normally get for a New Year’s gift? Shampoo? Or a bottle of whisky? Imagine, you are powerless, locked up in jail, and somebody gives you a gorgeous, fiery present,” Vorotnikov explained. As many as 20 legal cases have been filed against Voina group activists, and yet, says Vorotnikov, “We are up for the war. The war begins right now.” If burning a police truck is art, one might ask, then what is war?
Russian opposition leaders and civil-society figures see Voina’s act of arson as damaging and disturbing to the current political situation.
“Half a year ago, when the country’s protest was deeply asleep, I would understand Voina,” Nemtsov says. “But today, when 100,000 people protest against the Kremlin on the streets, Voina gives Putin good reason to say, ‘See, they are nothing but criminals,’ about the opposition in general.”
One of the inspiring figures behind Moscow’s mass anti-Putin protests, theater critic and satirist Victor Shenderovich, long ago stopped seeing the antics by Voina as aesthetically attractive. “Voina’s latest performances—turning police cars upside down on Palace Square, spraying police with urine, or burning police trucks—look tasteless from an artistic point of view, unlike their previous art projects.” Shenderovich said that by burning the police truck, Voina performed an act of trivial hooliganism at a delicate historical moment for Russian opposition.
All day, liberals bickered online over whether the arson attack on the police vehicle constituted “pure art,” as one commentator put it, or, as another maintained, “an act as idiotic as voting for United Russia,” the ruling party.
Andrei V. Yerofeyev, a prominent intellectual who has championed Voina in the past, said he thought that the group had helped awaken a more activist spirit in the Russian populace, and that it should move away from radical political acts like the burning of the police vehicle.
“The goal of art is deeper than activism,” he said. “They have carried out their assignment.” Original Free Voina post — http://en.free-voina.org/post/15835062141 04 Oct 2015, 0:08
Voina DIY Handbook ‘Fuck by yourselves!’ Section 2. How to stick a сhicken on a skewer September 15, 2010, Saint Petersburg Disgruntled by rampant police corruption, Voina came forward with a radical reform initiative. Activists turned the corrupt police system upside down. After the action, President Leo The Fucknut made the statement “While helping the child - I help the country”. Activists went on turning over police vehicles until morning.
Video of one training: Photo sets of over turning: 02 Oct 2015, 10:00
Voina DIY Handbook ‘Fuck by yourselves!’ Section 1. How to snatch chicken. The tale of how one cunt fed the whole of the group Voina. 20 July 2010, St. Petersburg
Leo the Fucknut, the Voina’s President, toghether with his wife, a girl activist of Voina named Vacuous Cunt With Inconceivably Huge Tits, demonstrate to the Russian people how food can be procured without the need for money, by liberating it from the whorish bonds of price.
'Do you have frozen chicken in stock?’ 'Go ahead and choose.’
The Voina activists, armed with giant letters, blocked the view of the CCTV cameras.
Vacuous Cunt With Inconceivably Huge Tits steals a chicken from a supermarket by hiding it in her vagina.
At the same time The Voina Activists assisted Cunt, showing the CCTV cameras and security guards their motto.
The letters spelt out the word BEZBLYADNO which, translated to English, means 'fuck whoring yourself’, Voina’s call to renounce the use of money. Food is a right, not a privilege. FUCK WHORING YOURSELF! declared the Voina motto.
The Vacuous Cunt With Inconceivably Huge Tits activist sneaks the chicken past security, safely hiding it inside her own cunt.
This prompted Russian revolutionaries to adopt the practice of stealing food.
They call it No Purchase Day.
International journalist’s report: http://free-voina.org/post/130285030614 Photo archive of the Chicken-in-Cunt action: http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/ebitessami/album/108859/ Photos of the preparation of the CIC action: http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/trenirofki/album/112574 Full photo album: http://www.imagebam.com/gallery/j2uu100acnkwnpr4g3xlsx4blbm3ot18/ 30 Sep 2015, 18:05
For the first time ever. The complete footage from the roof, from the Big House side (FSB headquarters). Extra link, in case of removal from Youtube: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ccc_1443619675 29 Sep 2015, 23:56
June 14, 2010, Saint Petersburg Voina members, on foot, bike and in a car, breach the roadblock. Activists rush over with white paint. Voina President Leo the Fucknut is captured and roughed up by the cops.
Video of monumental Voina’s Dick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw-rx6JqQIE Photo set: https://fotki.yandex.ru/users/trenirofki/album/105507/ THE GUARDIAN: Voina, art group backed by Banksy, wins Russian prize for erection http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/08/voina-banksy-penis-prize 28 Sep 2015, 17:12
VOINA The awesome Russian art collective Voina some of the greatest actions LEO THE FUCKNUT IS OUR PRESIDENT, 16-22 May 2010, Moscow Voina President Leo the Fucknut, with a migalka-resembling blue bucket on his head, He blindly moved against traffic, ignoring the speed limits Voina waged war against the abuse of blue emergency lights by VIP vehicles. Public officials use blue flashing lights (‘migalkas’) to exempt themselves from traffic laws, frequently causing accidents and killing pedestrians. In the past few years, accidents caused by VIP vehicles have left at least 72 common citizens dead and 40 injured. In every case, the perpetrators have gone unpunished. Finally on May 22nd, Leo collided with a VIP traffic offender from the KGB while moving at full speed near the entrance to the Moscow Kremlin. On behalf of the Russian people, Leo took on the fight and prevailed, celebrating his victory with a little jig on the roof of the armored car. Since then, Russians have taken to wearing blue buckets on their heads, giving rise to the Blue Buckets protest movement. DECEMBRISTS COMMEMORATION or THE HANGING OF GAYS AND IMMIGRANTS, 7 September 2008, Moscow Voina conducted an execution by hanging of three immigrant workers and two homosexuals during Moscow City Day celebration. It was an artistic present to Moscow mayor, notorious for his oppressive policies towards LGBT people and workers. The execution took place inside Ashan, the Moscow’s largest supermarket. The condemned are being escorted into the supermarket. The banner reads, “NO ONE GIVES A FUCK ABOUT PESTEL” A hanged homosexual. The hanging of a Tajik immigrant worker. HOW TO SNATCH CHICKEN. Section 1 of Voina DIY Handbook «FUCK BY YOURSELVES!», 20 July 2010, St. Petersburg Voina girl activist demonstrated to the Russian people how food can be procured without the need for money, by liberating it from the whorish bonds of price. 'Do you have frozen chicken in stock?’ 'Go ahead and choose.’ Other activists, armed with giant letters, blocked the view of the CCTV cameras. The letters spelt out the word BEZBLYADNO The activist sneaks the chicken past security, safely hiding it inside her own cunt. THE STORMING OF THE WHITE HOUSE, 7 November 2008, Moscow Voina assault squad pointed a laser beam at the Russian House of Government. The skull and crossbones was a signal to begin the assault. Voina activists climbed over the fence and stormed the White House, THE PALACE REVOLUTION, September 2010, St. Petersburg Disgruntled by rampant police corruption, Voina came forward with a radical reform initiative. Activists turned the corrupt police system upside down, under the motto «HELP THE CHILD, HELP YOUR COUNTRY!» Voina’s youngest activist Kasper the Can’t Takes Our Eyes Off Of Him «State Russian Museum. St. Michael’s Castle» The castle is guarded by a separate police platoon. 'We’ll get your ball, Kasper. Don’t cry.’ Activists went on turning over police vehicles until morning. DICK CAPTURED BY THE FSB, 14 June 2010, St. Petersburg Security guards are stopping traffic across the Liteyny Bridge, located in front of the local FSB (ex-KGB) headquarters. Voina members, on foot, bike and in a car, Activists rush over with white paint. Voina President Leo the Fucknut is captured and roughed up by the cops. Onlookers shout, 'It’s a Russia Day celebration!’ Voina’s Dick, 65 meters tall, 27 meters wide and weighing 3225 tonnes, rises in the face of the KGB! VOINA 27 Sep 2015, 22:37
LEO THE FUCKNUT IS OUR PRESIDENT! The epic win. May 22, 2010, Moscow, Kremlin Finally on May 22nd, Leo collided with a VIP traffic offender from the KGB while moving at full speed near the entrance to the Moscow Kremlin. On behalf of the Russian people, Leo took on the fight and prevailed, celebrating his victory with a little jig on the roof of the armored car. Since then, Russians have taken to wearing blue buckets on their heads, giving rise to the Blue Buckets protest movement. Video of attack: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0XdKh91k20
Photo sets:
https://fotki.yandex.ru/users/trenirofki/album/100844/
LIBERATION: Le seau bleu, emblème de la fronde russe contre la «gyropharocratie» (fr) http://www.liberation.fr/monde/2010/06/02/le-seau-bleu-embleme-de-la-fronde-russe-contre-la-gyropharocratie_656000
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