INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
An award-winning artist said Friday that he fled Russia after security forces uncovered his plan to disrupt the country's annual Victory Day
parade with a peaceful protest against the war in Ukraine.Danila Tkachenko said he purchased 140 blue-and-yellow smoke grenades and
installed them in air conditioners that he placed outside an apartment building near the Kremlin
The devices were set to go off remotely, spreading the colors of the Ukrainian flag into the air as Russian military hardware paraded across
Red Square.Victory Day commemorates the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in World War II and is a public holiday in Russia
(FSB) discovered plans for the stunt despite the fact that he had told no one about his intentions.The authorities opened a criminal case
against him on May 9, the day of the Victory Day parade, he said.He added that ??his friends and family have been subjected to raids and
houses in an abandoned Russian village as part of a photography project
Shortly after President Vladimir Putin sent troops into Ukraine, Russia passed a law making it a felony punishable by up to 15 years in jail
