"The activists, who spray-painted some works and broke others, were charged but later acquitted. Church officials condemned the art show, and the lower house of the parliament, up in arms, overwhelmingly passed a decree ordering the state prosecutor to act against the exhibit's organizers. A commission of art historians, asked by the prosecutor's office to evaluate the exhibition, did not find it to have incited religious hatred -- to the consternation of Orthodox officials and nationalists. Another commission, this time including a psychologist and a sociologist, was appointed. It found unanimously that the exhibition had indeed incited religious hatred.

"As a result, Samodurov [the museum's director] and others associated with the show have recently been indicted for inciting such hatred. They face up to five years in prison.

Samodurov and Andrey Kovalev run a page tracking the events and news coverage. Here are pictures pre and post attack.

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