Mighty is the paintbrush: Semyon Skrepetsky, the Russian dissident artist shot and killed in Poland

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Mighty is the paintbrush: Semyon Skrepetsky, the Russian dissident artist shot and killed in Poland
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Russian artist and dissident Semyon Skrepetsky was famous for his audacious, even malicious, caricatures of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov. Skrepetsky was shot and killed on Tuesday in the eastern Polish town of Biała Podlaska at the age of 44.

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