The process for the exhibition "Forbidden Art 2006" is nearing completion

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MOSCOW, June 7 - RIA Novosti. The process for the exhibition "Forbidden Art 2006", the organizers of a criminal case, two years after he started coming to an end, said at a press conference on Monday, one of the defendants, ex-head of contemporary art at the Tretyakov Gallery, Andrei Erofeev.

"Two years after its inception process is nearing its end," - he said.

As noted by Erofeev, over time, this process was not leaning in favor of prosecutors.

However, the lawyer accused Dmitry Kurepin assesses the chances of a conviction is overturned as "fifty-fifty."

"I am confident that the conviction will be imposed," - said its part of the second defendant, former director of the Public Centre of Andrei Sakharov Yuri Samodurov.

Erofeev and Samodurov - the last was previously involved in criminal proceedings and similar items - are accused of inciting hatred and enmity, as well as the humiliation of human dignity with the use of official position (point B of Part 2 of Article 282). This paper provides a maximum penalty of imprisonment up to five years.

The occasion served as an organized their exhibition "Forbidden Art 2006" Zverev Centre. It was held in March 2007 and generated considerable publicity in the exhibition includes works of modern art in 2006, subjected to a museum or art galleries censor. The curator of the exhibition was made by Andrei Erofeev. According to the chairman of public organization "People's Cathedral" Oleg Cassini, its exhibits are hurting the feelings of believers and stir up religious strife. A statement he sent on his own behalf the Attorney General in March 2007.

According to RIA Novosti Tagansky Court in Moscow, following a hearing held on June 21, and while persons on the case waiting for a response from the Patriarch's Council for Culture and the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Kirill. Appropriate letters, reflecting the position of Erofeev and Samodurov, who was unwilling to offend his exhibition anyone had been sent to them recently.

For Samodurov is not the first criminal case: he had previously brought to criminal responsibility for committing a similar crime. Tagansky district court of Moscow in 2005 he was sentenced to a fine of 100,000 rubles. The occasion was the exhibition "Caution: Religion!" in the Sakharov Center. This conviction extinguished.