Performance artist Pavel Krisevich has been detained.

Pavel's Telegram channel reports that he was detained in the village Miloslavskoye, Ryazan Oblast on the alert for an alleged attack on a taxi driver on February 12 Skopin. Pavel, however, has never been to Skopin, his support group assures. The protester has now been taken to the police station for questioning.

Krisevich was released from IK-5 in St. Petersburg At the end of January, he spent three and a half years there for his "suicide" performance on Moscow's Red Square, where he fired two shots into the air and one into his head with a blank-firing pistol, simulating suicide. Beforehand, he delivered a manifesto about repression, ending with the words "shots will follow before the Kremlin curtain." The court deemed the performance "hooliganism with the use of weapons."

A week ago, security forces came to Krisevich's home in St. Petersburg. The search was related to the gallery owner's case. Marat Gelman about "justifying terrorism."