Storm in an Eurasian tea-cup? 2 November: the Eurasian Union of Youth (EUY), headed by Kandinsky Prize-winning painter Alexei Belyaev-Gintovt, announces a public meeting in support of Russian historical values and against contemporary art; the announcement names E. Degot, M. Guelman, A. Erofeev and A. Osmolovsky as the main enemies of Russian culture and says they belong in jail (Open Space, in Russian). 4 November: the four vilified respond (Open Space, in Russian). 5 November: Belyaev-Gintovt denies he said any such thing (Open Space, in Russian). 

Report on the EUY meeting (Geopolitica, in Russian). Below: Belyaev-Gintovt's credo: he explains his debt to Timur Novikov, emphasis his orientation to the past and revives the essentially Stalinist concept narodnost ("peopleness").