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.
Several shots at close range and a final bullet to head. These were the violent last moments of exiled Russian artist Semyon Skrepetsky, known for his satirical, neo-primitivist paintings. From a painting in the Russian Orthodox style depicting Soviet leader Joseph Stalin cradling Putin to portraying pro-Russian Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov as a hooker, the artist had a wide range of political targets.
