Alexander Didenko

Hi my dear friends! I envy your freedom. I was born in Siberia. You know this region, very cold :-) I live in Moscow, drawing a lot and have been doing this for many years. But it’s not easy to be an artist in Russia​, especially an artist who makes fun of shrines. The list of things you should not laugh at is huge. An encyclopedia could be compiled from this list. If each department compiles its own encyclopedia of prohibitions, then we get a huge library of taboos.

Russian leaders say there is no censorship in the country. They claim that only insults are prohibited and this is far from a censorship. When artists laugh at religion, they offend the people, the memory of ancestors, and the state itself. Therefore, newspapers and magazines in Russia, in which artists could laugh, are much smaller than the towers of the Moscow Kremlin. For such "wise men" there is a ghetto — the Internet. But our authorities are trying to put order in it.

Journalists, artists, bloggers, we all are sorrowful with censorship. Poets are persecuted for poetry, articles are deleted, books and videos are banned, cinema halls remove films from the demonstration, paintings and photographs are not allowed into the halls, bloggers are arrested for posts....