Russian artist attack set on fire former KGB headquarters

No, it's not a terrorist attack! 

It's just a way of expressing one person's opinion!

Who is this extreme artist, Pyotr Pavlensky?

Take a look, he's a pretty weird guy...      

      Russian authorities have detained a political performance artist best known for nailing his scrotum to Red Square after he torched the entrance to the headquarters of the FSB security service, the successor to the KGB.     

      Pyotr Pavlensky set fire to the wooden doors of the sprawling FSB building in central Moscow at about 1am on Monday. A video posted online shows flames leaping to the top of the doorway as Pavlensky stands in front of it holding a petrol canister, before a policeman comes running up to him.

Pyotr Pavlensky, pretty interesting huy, isn't he?

     In his statement, Pavlensky accused the FSB of “terrorism” and said: “The threat of inevitable reprisals hangs over everyone within the range of security cameras, phone-tapping and passport control borders.” He called the act a “reflex to fight for my own life”. The FSB building, which take up an entire block, was used by Soviet-era secret police for interrogations, detaining opponents and extra-judicial killings. President Vladimir Putin briefly headed the FSB and was a KGB agent in East Germany during the Soviet era.

     In 2013 Pavlensky stripped naked and nailed his scrotum to the cobblestones of Red Square to protest against police controls. The case was eventually closed due to the lack of any crime. He has been charged with vandalism and could face up to three years in jail for another performance, called Freedom, held in St Petersburg last year. During that action, he and other activists set fire to tyres and waved a Ukrainian flag to simulate the Maidan protests in Kiev that led to the ousting of a pro-Moscow leader. In other shocking performances to highlight a lack of civil freedoms, Pavlensky has sewn up his lips, wrapped himself in barbed wire and cut off part of his earlobe.