Moscow Council Candidate Using Plaster Casts of Her Breasts to Protest City's Demolition Plans

Moscow Council Candidate Using Plaster Casts of Her Breasts to Protest City's Demolition Plans

pLusya Stein, a local election candidate in Moscow, has, in an unusual way, made the city’s controversial renovation program central to her campaign.ppPlaster casts of Stein’s breasts have been appearing at buildings listed for demolition in her Basmanny district. Stein’s campaign quoted her as saying, “I want to protect my area, but I cannot attend different places at the same time, so I placed some of myself in houses that are doomed to demolition in Basmanny district, where I live and from which I’m nominated.”ppThe campaign said that naked women’s breasts had a long association with protest, citing Delacroix’s painting Liberty Leading the People as an example.ppThe renovation plan, which involves the demolition of thousands of Soviet-era apartments, has sparked large protests in Moscow.


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