OLEG YANUSHEVSKY
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: ICONIC RUSSIAN ARTIST FINDS ASYLUM IN LONDON - By Andrew Jack
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www.culturekiosque.com
LONDON, 12 MAY 2007— Britain has collected a gallery of influential Russians seeking political exile since President Vladimir Putin came to office in 2000, but Oleg Yanushevsky has a rather more original claim. He is the first contemporary Russian artist to win asylum because of cultural persecution.
In late 2005, he arrived at Heathrow Airport and announced his request to surprised immigration officers, triggering a lengthy period in waiting in Liverpool that ...
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2009-03-01 17:15:56
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