Anatoli Ulyanov's Ukrainian art website Proza (http://proza.com.ua) has been shut down by its US host for displaying "child pornography". Ulyanov [who has waged a media war against recent Ukrainian anti-pornography legislation] claims the shut-down resulted from a tip-off from the Ukrainian authorities (gzt.ru, in Russian). The image in question was not an art-work but a photo by one "Will McBride" from a 1974 edition of the "educational-medical" magazine Zeig Mal (Glyanets, in Russian).
More Ukraine news here: Pavel Gudimov's Ya Gallery in Kiev has been set fire to after the presentation and discussion there of a gay literary anthology; an art-project was vandalised at the recent GogolFest art fair; and the notorious Ulyanov has fled abroad for his own safety after threats. But Ulyanov himself seems to welcome the attention [one is led to deduce that all his activity is a deliberate provocation] (levyi bereg, in Russian):
I'm sure many liberals will disagree with me, but Ukrainian artists need repression and violence for the sake of the future, for the sake of development and life. An avant-garde without a Fuehrer is impossible.
