Russian performance artist nails himself to Red Square cobblestone by his testicles

[Bosonic]

A Russian performance artist stripped naked and nailed his testicles to a Red Square cobblestone
in protest against the Kremlin's crackdown on political rights.

Eye-watering footage shows artist Pyotr Pavlensky sitting naked outside Lenin's Mausoleum in Moscow, Russia, before police covered him with a blanket.

The state-run RIA Novosti news agency said Pavlensky was taken to a police station after being
treated in a central Moscow clinic.

The Saint Petersburg-based artist said in a statement posted on the Grani.ru website that he was trying to draw attention to Russian society's development into a 'police state'.

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[Warren DeMontague]

1. Note that in the URL, "TESTICLES" is in all caps

Cops are remarkably nonchalant about the whole thing.

[MADem]

2. Good grief....so walking around with a sign stating his grievances didn't cut it? nt

[liberal N proud]

3. It wasn't getting him in the headlines

Of course now his testicles are worthless but he got a headline.