A Moscow court has freed Russia’s most notorious performance artist, who was jailed for setting fire to the headquarters of Russia’s security services last year.
The court fined Petr Pavlensky just 500,000 roubles (£5,319) for damaging the cultural site and ordered him to pay a further 481,000 roubles to compensate for the cost of repairs. [...]
Many expected the state to imprison Pavlensky, 32, following the example of punk group Pussy Riot, two of whose members were jailed for two years after a performance in a Moscow cathedral in 2012.
Pavlensky’s lawyer, Dmitry Dinze, has previously said the performance artist will likely ignore the fine out of principle, which could eventually see him land in jail anyway.
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