KGB prison doors given questionable cultural heritage status

A prosecutor who is seeking a guilty verdict against political performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky presented a unique argument in a Moscow court on Wednesday. According to charges read out by Anton Sizov, the door of the Federal Security Service or former KGB on Moscow’s Lubyanka Square, damaged when Pavlensky set fire to it last November, is a cultural heritage site because “leading figures of science and culture were imprisoned here”.
The prison was known as a site where diss