By Andrew P. Napolitano
The president's men trash the Constitution to pursue antagonists
A senior Russian Orthodox official claimed Wednesday that novels by Vladimir Nabokov and Gabriel Garcia Marquez justify pedophilia and said they should be banned in the nation's high schools.
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities canceled a major exhibition of French and Russian paintings set to open in London in January, fearing authorities could seize the art to settle private legal claims, a Russian museum official said yesterday.
former culture minister Mikhail Shvydkoi, who is now serving as the Kremlin envoy for international cultural relations, acknowledged in an interview published last month that some of the country's most influential people are behind Tsiskaridze, but insisted that Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev were staying above the fray.
The head of Russia's federal cultural agency, Mikhail Shvydkoi, said descendants of two prominent 19th- and early 20th-century Russian art patrons and collectors have not ruled out legal action.
