From Echo Moskvy:
RUSSIAN MUSEUMS TO HIDE “18+” PICTURES AND STATUES FROM CHILDREN
Roskomnadzor experts have suggested the preparation of methodical recommendations for exhibiting works of art in terms of age categories.
The document should be ready by the end of next year, writes the newspaper Izvestiya today, quoting the department. In the law On Protecting Children from Harmful Information which is now active, it’s noted that its scope doesn’t extend to the use of “informative publications with significant historical, artistic, or other cultural value for society”. Even last year Roskomnadzor representatives assured people that they wouldn’t ban children from viewing “adult” works of art. However, they’re now proposing recommendations be worked out for museums. What the Roskomnadzor have in mind “is hard to say,” thinks President of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts Irina Antonova. “Anti-humane works can be dangerous for children. Pornography can also be classified as one of them. However such things, as a rule, fall outside of the typical understanding of art,” notes Antonova. She says there are no museums in the world with separate halls for those who haven’t reached 18. “In our Italian courtyard visitors are greeted by Michelangelo’s famous statue of David. Can’t we show it?” Antonova asks a rhetorical question. “There are also halls of antique art. Ancient Greeks admired the naked body.” In the president of the Pushkin museum’s opinion, they’ll hardly ban natural nakedness – it would be ‘madness’.
Roskomnadzor representatives were unable to officially comment on this document.
Comments from Echo Moskvy:
napoleon2013:
i.e. everything!
julie0109: (responding to above)
No, not everything, the monuments to Lenin and the farmer and worker will stay, well and the portraits of Putin, it goes without saying
evgolius4: (responding to above)
Roskomnadzor experts …
Right…experts…
And why should the ladies and guys from Roskomnadzor decide what my granddaughter can see in the Tretyakov?
They might decide that Ivanov in The Appearance of Christ to the People is nude… does he count?
This didn’t even happen during Soviet times…
They’ll take it…and hide it in the storage room…
yat: (responding to above)
Of course it’s pornography. Rubens’ slim naked beauties on couches? Only in a separate room with a pass in your passport and a certificate from a psychiatrist confirming you have no abnormalities.
If we have to fight for anything – then it’s with our last ounce of sensible thought. It will end with this.
muleta:
David in trousers? Ar-ri-ginal!
toyama_tokanava: (responding to above)
I was recently in the Vatican museum. They brought a group of mentally handicapped children to that hall where Michelangelo’s Last Judgment is. It goes without saying that no one thought to cover their eyes. I spoke with the group’s leader. It turns out, by the latest studies, introducing children to TRUE BEAUTY helps their adaptation. Here, it looks like everything’s the opposite – they’re making mentally handicapped people out of normal people.
doppelganger: (responding to above)
Ban the bible – Adam and Eve walked around there exposed before the devil told them that it’s not polite.
The devils steers Russia.
de_rus: (responding to above)
I propose banning Roskomnadzor. All of its members. And as an organization. I, of course, understand that this is all being done to divert attention, but there should be a limit for idiocy.
julie0109: (responding to above)
They didn’t even hit on such nonsense in the Soviet Union. A medieval obscurity. Now kids can’t go to Peterhof, Samson, Adam, and Eve are there, also in the Summer Garden… Walking in the Summer Garden, probably, also ruined Onegin.
semia: (responding to above)
Yes, let kids play shooter games on the internet. You can watch porn there and also on the cable channels that took offense and shut down Dozhd.
But naked people in works of art. Dressing Samson on the fountain is long overdue.
traner: (responding to above)
What did I say! These monsters will take down David. Whatever the barbarians didn’t get done the Mizulinists will.
killed_by_a_trash:
If idiotism were an Olympic sport, it would be a serious claim for gold.
dora_pomidorova:
How did they get it, these guards! Books, now pictures, next, obviously, ballet.
julie0109: (responding to above)
The Gosdura urgently had to pass a law like this, but then the deputines relaxed a bit; they didn’t ban anything for a few days. At the same time they’ll ban ban beaches and zoos for children.
toyama_tokanava:
Well, Putin’s high moral standards are well known. And his love for children too. He proved both kissing a five-year-old boy on the stomach.
kurs:
Ban going to church. No need to look at a naked Christ nailed to a cross.
starrain: (responding to above)
It is true… S&M propaganda.
igor.lobanov.75:
I propose gouging out children’s eyes and covering up their ears until 18. Also gluing their mouths upon coming of age.
podwodnik:
What about monuments? Here in the center of Königsberg we have the Fighting Bulls in their natural state. What’s more, they have everything on the outside so cadets still scrub their “personal area” to a shine in a graduate tradition. How do you explain to a child why something is sticking out of two golden balls :). In England the Puritans would dress piano legs, our Puritans might need to have condoms pulled over their heads so that they don’t go covering up and dressing everything around.
income: (responding to above)
I’ll shut up about Yekaterinburg monuments, or they’ll remember about some athlete and cut his bits off. Or cover it up with a box like they once covered up the bust of Stalin in the house of officers.
antroposs:
Dress cats and dogs in underwear! When they run their balls shake – they’re raising zoophiles out of our children
deliriumtremens:
A teacher once gave a piece of homework: compose a verse. She asks about it the next day. Out comes Vovochka with:
-There’s a statue in the sunset’s rays, with a huge ..k, with a spade in its hands.
The teacher embarrassed says:
-Vovochka, could you do it without that?
Vovochka:
-Of course. There’s a statue in the sunset’s rays, without a ..k at all, with a spade in its hands.
The teacher even more embarrassed:
-Vovochka, could you do it without any of that?
Vovochka:
-Of course. There’s a spade in the sunset’s rays, the statue with a ..k has gone away.
apn1935:
Why hide them? Break the sculptures, burn the hell out of the pictures. An alternative: glue fig leaves to the famous places in pictures and put detachable plaster bras on sculptures of ladies.
vadimp:
And from what age can ya look at a pisser now? :)
