Pyotr Pavlensky is setting Russia's evil history ablaze

By torching the doors of Moscow’s security service HQ, the radical artist ties its sinister history – the KGB, the Gulag, the secret police that boiled people alive – to Putin’s current reign. No wonder he was arrested for hooliganismPyotr Pavlensky is not exactly a subtle artist. The radical Russian performance artist made world headlines in 2013 when he nailed his scrotum to Red Square. Now he has been arrested for setting fire to the front door of the Federal Security