free-voina-en:

Vor:

Since February 6 we’ve been fighting with RIA Novosti, the state
news agency, to publish my interview. The agency asked us for it back
in late December, on the 22nd. Only on the 19th of January did they
send me questions, which the culture section took a whole month to
draft and approve. On February 6, a journalist named Svetlana Yankina
got the interview on the condition that it would be published without
cuts or censorship. The condition was accepted. But after their
newsroom got our answers, they started an endless “approval” process,
which involved the editors sending requests to throw out the brighter
remarks and totally remove all of the substantive parts of the
interview. The editors started sending cowardly missives. “…since I am
the interviewer, it turns out that I knew ahead of time about the
actions you were preparing and did not inform the relevant
authorities. Therefore, I am a co-conspirator. This creates risks not
only for me, but for the agency where I work. That is why I suggest
removing these fragments… Please understand, we are not talking about
censorship.”
And all kinds of crap like that.

A month later, we were forced to published the interview without the foul censorship the RIA Novosti news agency had attempted.

the Berlin biennale Artur Zhmievsky before he invited you to take part in the group of curators.

Vor: Yes, we met in the spring of 2011 in Petersburg. And his offer to become a co-curator of the BB came that summer. Zmiy (Artur Zmievsky) came to Petersburg once more after that. We swam in the Neva river and kept working together after that.

Vor and Zmiy in the Neva

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