Publications about the Voina Group in English
You can find publications in other languages here - http://plucer.livejournal.com/398101.html
Jan. 24, 2012
Channel 4 News: "Russia under Putin. Voina Group" - http://www.channel4.com/news/russia-a-burning-desire-for-change
Jan. 12, 2012
The Moscow Times: "Voina's New Year Gift for Police" - http://www.themoscowtimes.com/arts_n_ideas/article/voinas-new-year-gift-for-police/450949.html
Jan. 6, 2012
The Daily Beast: "Russian Protesters Use Art as Act of War" - http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/01/06/russian-protesters-use-art-as-act-of-war.html
Jan. 5, 2012
ARTINFO: "Voina explains why firebombing a police tank is a piece of art" - http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/755205/voina-explains-why-firebombing-a-police-tank-is-a-piece-of-art
Jan.3, 2012
The Washington Post: "Russian artists burn police cars: Is it art? (Video)" - http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/arts-post/post/russian-artists-burn-police-cars-is-it-art-video/2012/01/03/gIQAi07HYP_blog.html
Gallerist NY: "Russian Art Group Voina Says They Bombed a Police Vehicle in St. Petersburg" - http://www.galleristny.com/2012/01/russian-art-group-voina-claims-they-bombed-a-police-vehicle-in-st-petersburg/
Jan. 2, 2012
AFP: "Radical Russian art group 'sets police van on fire'" - http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/World/Story/A1Story20120102-319504.html
Animal New York: "VOINA ART GROUP TORCHED A COP VEHICLE" - http://animalnewyork.com/tag/voina/
The New York Times: "Russian Art Group Claims Attack on Police Van" - http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/03/world/europe/russian-art-group-voina-claims-attack-on-police-van.html
The Huffington Post: "Russian Art Group Voina Burns Police Car On New Years Eve (VIDEO)"- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/02/russian-art-group-voina-burns-police-car_n_1179812.html
Dec. 6, 2011
ARTINFO: "Outlaw Berlin Biennale Curator Stages Daring Escape From Russian Jail Cell" - http://artinfo.com/news/story/753298/outlaw-berlin-biennale-curator-stages-daring-escape-from-russian-jail-cell
Nov. 25, 2011
Animal New York: "ADORABLE VOINA CHILD STABS PICTURES OF THE RUSSIAN POLICE" - http://animalnewyork.com/2011/11/adorable-voina-child-stabs-pictures-of-the-russian-police/
Nov. 14, 2011
Ceska Pozice: "Russian protest art group brings message to Prague" - http://www.ceskapozice.cz/en/news/society/russian-protest-art-group-brings-message-prague
November 3, 2011
Radio Free Europe RFE/RL : “Is This Club For 'Members' Only?” - http://www.rferl.org/content/russia_performance_group_voina_war_art_protest_groups/24380826.html
Radio Free Europe RFE/RL : “Russian Art Group Brings Protest To Prague (Video)” - http://www.rferl.org/video/27495.html
Nov. 1, 2011
Animal New York: "VOINA IS AN ANARCHIST SYNDICATE, BUT NOT REALLY" - http://animalnewyork.com/2011/11/voina-is-fight-club/
Oct. 19, 2011
Animal New York: "VOINA GOT ARRESTED BY RUSSIAN COPS POSING AS JOURNALISTS" - http://animalnewyork.com/2011/10/voina-got-arrested-by-russian-cops-pretending-to-be-journalists/
Index on censorship : "RUSSIA: VOINA ARTIST ARRESTED, DETAINED WITHOUT CHARGE" - http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/10/russia-voina-artist-arrested-detained-without-charge/
Oct. 18, 2011
Artinfo: "Escape Artist: Wanted Voina Art Anarchist Outfoxes Russian Police Again, Fleeing On His Bike" - http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/38894/escape-artist-wanted-voina-art-anarchist-outfoxes-russian-police-again-fleeing-on-his-bike/
Oct. 14, 2011
Cafe Babel: "Russian art group Voina boycotts Moscow contemporary art biennale" - http://www-pre.cafebabel.co.uk/article/39034/voina-activist-art-boycott-moscow-2011-biennale.html
Oct. 7, 2011
Stefan van Drake`s Journal: "Is Voina Group Russia´s Ai Weiwei?" - http://stefanvandrake.blogspot.com/2011/10/exclusive-arttraveler-interview-with.html
September 28, 2011
Russia Profile: "A Fight Over the “Voina” Name Takes Place Against the Backdrop of Russia’s Largest Art Festival" - http://russiaprofile.org/culture_living/46277.html
September 26, 2011
New York Observer: "Yes Men Art Activist Group Joins Moscow Biennale Boycott" - http://www.observer.com/2011/09/yes-men-art-activist-group-joins-moscow-biennale-boycott/
September 21, 2011
New York Observer: "Radical Russian Art Group Voina Protests Moscow Biennale" -
http://www.observer.com/2011/09/radical-russian-art-group-voina-protests-moscow-biennale/
Aug. 17, 2011
Animal New York: "BANKSY’S ‘THE ANTICS ROADSHOW’ DOESN’T SUCK, VOINA LIKED IT" - http://animalnewyork.com/2011/08/banksys-the-antics-roadshow-doesnt-suck-voina-liked-it/
Aug. 2, 2011
Animal New York: "HOW TO GIVE INTERVIEWS WHEN YOU’RE WANTED BY RUSSIAN COPS" - http://animalnewyork.com/2011/08/how-to-give-interviews-when-youre-wanted-by-russian-cops/
Jul. 26, 2011
Animal New York: "VOINA: OLEG NOT ARRESTED, BUT INTERNATIONALLY WANTED" - http://animalnewyork.com/2011/07/voina-oleg-not-arrested-but-internationally-wanted/
Jul. 25, 2011
Animal New York: "VOINA ARTIST OLEG VOROTNIKOV ARRESTED AGAIN?" - http://animalnewyork.com/2011/07/voinas-oleg-vorotnikov-arrested-again/
Jul. 20, 2011
Animal New York: "VOINA’S BANKSY-DONATED BAIL GOES TO THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT" - http://animalnewyork.com/2011/07/voinas-banksy-donated-bail-goes-to-the-russian-goverment/
Jul. 8, 2011
Animal New York: "VOINA DONATES MORE OF BANKSY’S MONEY TO “POLITICAL PRISONERS”" - http://animalnewyork.com/2011/07/voina-donates-more-of-banksys-money-to-political-prisoners/
Jun. 30, 2011
Animal New York: "VOINA ARTISTS ARE WANTED BY THE POLICE, AGAIN" - http://animalnewyork.com/2011/06/voina-artists-are-wanted-by-the-police-again/
Apr. 25, 2011
Animal New York: "VOINA DONATES BANKSY’S MONEY TO PERSECUTED ANARCHIST VANDALS" - http://animalnewyork.com/2011/04/voina-donates-banksys-money-to-persecuted-anarchist-vandals/
Apr. 15, 2011
The St.Petersburg Times: "SECOND CRIMINAL CASE AGAINST VOINA ART GROUP FILED" - http://www.sptimes.ru/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=33858
IDIOM Magazine: “Art By Other Means: On Voina” - http://idiommag.com/2011/04/art-by-other-means-on-voina/
Apr. 13, 2011
The St.Petersburg Times: "A giant penis spray-painted on a bridge has won an art prize" - http://www.sptimes.ru/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=33851
Apr. 8, 2011
Animal New York: "ANARCHIST ART GROUP VOINA WINS STATE ‘INNOVATION’ ART PRIZE" - http://animalnewyork.com/2011/04/anarchist-art-group-voina-wins-state-innovation-art-prize/
The New York Times:: "Radical Art Group Wins Russian Ministry Prize" - http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/09/world/europe/09russia.html?_r=1&ref=europe
April 6, 2011
Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty: "Anarchist Art Gang Angers Russian Authorities With Provocative Antistate Antics" - http://www.rferl.org/content/anarchist_art_gang_angers_authorities_provocative_antistate_antics/3548992.html
St. Petersburg Times:"OPPOSITION DECLARES DISSENTERS’ MARCH A SUCCESS" - http://sptimes.ru/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=33799
April 4, 2011
Agence France Presse: "Russian artists anger authorities with daring works" - http://www.france24.com/en/20110404-russian-artists-anger-authorities-with-daring-works
VICE Magazine: "RUSSIA’S ART WAR - AN INTERVIEW WITH VOINA" - http://www.viceland.com/wp/2011/04/russias-art-war/1
Animal New York: "VOINA’S KOZLENOK ESCAPES FROM POLICE VAN, POLICE BRUTALITY VIDEOS" - http://animalnewyork.com/2011/04/voinas-kozlenok-escapes-from-police-van-police-brutality-videos/
April 2, 2011
The Washington Post: "Russian art group Voina uses often-illegal means to spread anti-state message" - http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/russian-art-group-voina-uses-often-illegal-means-to-spread-anti-state-message/2011/03/30/AF6dtfLC_story.html
April 1, 2011
The Other Russia: "Voina Activists Beaten by Police, Denied Access to Lawyer" - http://www.theotherrussia.org/2011/04/01/voina-activists-beaten-by-police-denied-access-to-lawyer/
Mar. 18, 2011
Animal New York: "VOINA, RECORD NUMBER OF PROTESTORS ARRESTED AT HUMAN RIGHTS MARCH" - http://animalnewyork.com/2011/04/voina-and-150-others-arrested-at-human-rights-protest/
March 30, 2011
Utopianist: “RUSSIA’S MOST DANGEROUS ART COLLECTIVE TAKES ACTIVISM TO NEW HEIGHTS” - http://utopianist.com/2011/03/russias-most-dangerous-art-collective-takes-activism-to-outrageous-new-heights/
March, 22, 2011
RIA Novosti: "Radical Russian art group Voina donates Banksy money to political prisoners" - http://en.rian.ru/society/20110322/163145514.html
Mar. 18, 2011
Animal New York: "VOINA MIGHT STILL WIN STATE ART PRIZE… OH IRONY" - http://animalnewyork.com/2011/03/voina-might-still-win-state-art-prize-oh-irony/
March 5, 2011
BBC: "How Banksy bailed out Russian graffiti artists Voina" - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12645902
The Village Voice: "Banksy Bails Out Russian Artists, Is Becoming Modern-Day Folk Hero" - http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/03/banksy_bails_ou.php
March 4, 2011
Melrose & Fairfax: "Voina's Children Get Beaten By Police" - http://melroseandfairfax.blogspot.com/2011/03/voinas-children-get-beaten-by-police.html
March 4, 2011
Animalnewyork.com: "VOINA BEATEN UP BY “COPS” - http://animalnewyork.com/2011/03/voina-beaten-up-by-cops-kasper-injured/
March 4, 2011
Groundswell: "Three Voina Members Injured in Alleged Police Beating" - http://groundswellcollective.com/2011/03/04/three-voina-members-injured-in-alleged-police-beating/
March 4, 2011
Art Threat: "VOINA artists attacked (again) by Russian police. Artists fear psychiatric incarceration" - http://artthreat.net/2011/03/voina-artists-attacked-beaten-by-russian-police-banksy/
March 4, 2011
Radio Free Europe: "Art Group Activists Beaten In St. Petersburg" - http://www.rferl.org/content/art_group_activists_beaten_petersburg/2327683.html
March 4, 2011
RIA Novosti: "Radical art group Voina 'attacked by police' in St. Petersburg" - http://en.rian.ru/russia/20110304/162856631.html
February 28, 2011
ARTINFO.com: "Out of Captivity: Bansky Wins Freedom of Russia's Jailed Voina Art Anarchists" - http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/37067/out-of-captivity-bansky-wins-freedom-of-russias-jailed-voina-art-anarchists/
February 27, 2011
Reuters: "Penis graffiti dropped from Russian competition" - http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/02/27/us-russia-art-idUKTRE71Q13420110227
February 25, 2011
Wooster: "JUST IN: VOINA Released From Prison" - http://www.woostercollective.com/2011/02/just_in_voina_released_from_prison.html
February 23, 2011
The Independent: "The artists who crossed the line: An art group that stages orgies, throws cats at cashiers and has Banksy as a fan has enraged the Russian authorities" - http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/the-artists-who-crossed-the-line-2222639.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/the-artists-who-crossed-the-line-2222639.html?action=Gallery&ino=2
February 22, 2011
Terror People: interview with the Voina Group - http://terrorpeople.org/?p=922
February 22, 2011
Reuters: "Voina artist lodges European Court case against Russia" - http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/22/us-russia-art-court-idUSTRE71L4G220110222
February 22, 2011
Russia Profile: "Free Voina!" - http://russiaprofile.org/culture_living/32861.html
February 17, 2011
Hyperallergic.com: “Voina Art-ivists Reject Russian Culture Ministry’s Prize Nomination” - http://hyperallergic.com/19017/voina-reject-russian-culture-prize/
February 14, 2011
Animalnewyork.com: "VOINA NOMINATED FOR ART PRIZE BY RUSSIA’S MINISTRY OF CULTURE" - http://animalnewyork.com/2011/02/voina-nominated-for-art-prize-by-russias-ministry-of-culture/
February 11, 2011
Very Nearly Almost Magazine, Issue 14: THIS IS HARDCORE!" (Interview with the VOINA Group - http://plucer.livejournal.com/385895.html
February 11, 2011
The New York Times:: "Radical Art Collective Voina Shortlisted for Ministry Prize" - http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/world/europe/12briefs-Russia.html?_r=1&src=twrhp
February 7, 2011
Art Threat: "Even Banksy couldn’t help them. Russian performance art troupe harassed, threatened, jailed" - http://artthreat.net/2011/02/banksy-voina-russia-art-human-rights/
January 25, 2011
DAY.kiev.ua: the interview with Alexei Plutser-Sarno: "War group and radical art protest" - http://www.day.kiev.ua/301098
January 21, 2011
The New York Times:: the profile article on the Voina artist, Alexei Plutser-Sarno: "Artist Playing Cat-and-Mouse Faces Russia’s Claws" - http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/22/world/europe/22voina.html
January 18, 2011
ARTINFO.com: The article "Judge Rejects Banksy's Offer to Post Bail for Russian Activists, Citing the Artist's Anonymity" - http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/36758/judge-rejects-banksys-offer-to-post-bail-for-russian-activists-citing-the-artists-anonymity/
January 10, 2011
BOMBLOG: "ART INSURRECTIONISTS FROM A RUSSIAN PRISON", the interview with Voina - http://bombsite.com/issues/1000/articles/4776
December 22, 2010
Hyperallergic.com: the interview with Natalia Sokol (aka Kozlyenok) about the arrested activist of the Voina art group - http://hyperallergic.com/15354/voina-interview/
December 20, 2010
Don't Panic magazine: "Russian art anarchists explain themselves" - http://www.dontpaniconline.com/magazine/radar/russian-art-anarchists-explain-themselves
December 16, 2010
Saatchi Online Magazine: the review of the Voina arrest after the action Palace revolution - http://magazine.saatchionline.com/magazine-articles/artnews/banksy-gives-jailed-russian-artists-4-million-roubles
December 13, 2010
BBC: "Banksy supports Voina, controversial Russian art group" - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11982984
ARTINFO.com: "Banksy Bankrolls Jailed Russian Art Anarchists" - http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/36573/banksy-bankrolls-jailed-russian-art-anarchists/
December 13, 2010
ARTINFO.com: "Russia's Political Artists Deserve Support" - http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/36576/russias-political-artists-deserve-support/
December 13, 2010
Don’t Panic magazine: the interview with the Voina group after the arrest of Oleg and Leonid -
http://dontpaniconline.com/magazine/radar/russian-art-anarchists-explain-themselves
December 12, 2010
Guardian.co.uk: "Banksy pledges £80,000 to Russian radical art group Voina" - http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/dec/12/banksy-russia-voina-donation
December 6, 2010
Globalpost.com: Russian police have creative new foe: Voina arts group - http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/study-abroad/101206/russian-secret-police-kgb-russian-police-brutality?page=0,0
December 2, 2011
Russia Profile: "The Art of War" (interview with Alexei Plutser-Sarno) - http://russiaprofile.org/culture_living/a1291312818.html
November 30, 2010
St. Petersburg Times: "VOINA ‘GURU’ FLEES TO ESTONIA" (the article on Alexei Plutser-Sarno leaving Russia after the arrest of the Voina activists) - http://www.times.spb.ru/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=33051
November 30, 2010
The Observers/France 24: the article on the action “Palace Revolution” and the arrest of Voina - http://observers.france24.com/russia-art-voina-activists-police-car-flip-petersburg-charged-penis-bridge-cockroaches
November 26, 2010
St. Petersburg Times: "CONTROVERSIAL ARTISTS CHARGED OVER POLICE CAR STUNT" (the article on the action “Palace revolution” and the arrest of Oleg Vorotnikov and Leonid Nikolayev) - http://www.sptimes.ru/index.php?story_id=33020&action_id=2
November 27, 2010
ВВС News: the report by Lucy Ash on the actions and the arrest of the Voina group on the BBC's From Our Own Correspondent.
Click to viewSource - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00w6lkj#p00cfr25
You can read the report here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11982984
July 22, 2010
The Observers/France 24: "Towering penis graffiti startles St. Petersburg residents" - http://observers.france24.com/content/20100622-giant-penis-towers-over-st-petersburg-skyline-russia-liteiny-bridge-art-voina
July 19, 2010
The First Pint: "The Angry Russian on his artistic Angry compatriots" (the article about the Voina actions in Russia and Europe) - http://www.thefirstpint.co.uk/2010/07/19/the-angry-russian-on-his-artistic-angry-compatriots/
June 18?, 2010
Wonder How To: "Russian Pranksters "Dick" Bridge" - http://www.wonderhowto.com/news/wonderment/russian-pranksters-dick-bridge-0117172/
June 17, 2010
The Moscow Times: "Voina pulled off a special welcome as the city opened its economic forum - by painting a giant penis on a bridge opposite the local secret services HQ" - http://themoscownews.com/business/20100617/187877788.html
June 17, 2010
Iol news: "When the bridge rises, so does the penis..." - http://www.iol.co.za/news/back-page/when-the-bridge-rises-so-does-the-penis-1.487246
Jun. 16, 2010
Boingboing: "Russian art group Voina "dicks" a St. Petersburg Bridge" - http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/16/russian-art-group-vo.html
Jun. 16, 2010
Animal New York: "WHY RUSSIAN ART GROUP VOINA ‘DICKED’ A ST. PETERSBURG BRIDGE" - http://animalnewyork.com/2010/06/why-russian-art-group-voina-dicked-a-st-petersburg-bridge/
October, 2009
ARTnews.com: the article where the founding father of the Russian activism Andrei Monastyrsky says “If not for the Voina group, contemporary Russian art would be terrible, provincial, commercial fuckoff”. - http://www.artnews.com/issues/article.asp?art_id=2757
June 16, 2009
Boingboing: "Art show fracas in Russia" - http://boingboing.net/2009/06/16/art-show-fracas-in-r.html
June 16, 2009
Read Russia: "The Bull, the Bear, Art, War, Sex and Trouble" - http://www.readrussia.com/blog/art/00200/
July 23, 2008
Reuters: the review article on Voina - http://www.reuters.com/article/sphereNews/idUSL1650947620080723?sp=true&view=sphere
Video Reports
July, 2008
Reuters: “ The group of artists is making the headlines in Russia for mocking the establishment with controversial artistic performances, including sex.”
Source - http://www.reuters.com/article/video/idUSL1650947620080723?videoId=87646
August, 2010
ARTE JOURNAL: “Le collectif russe Voina”
Source - http://www.arte.tv/fr/Comprendre-le-monde/arte-journal/3377002.html