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Intelligentsia Get a Statue.
(From The Moscow Times)
A new statue of a winged horse dedicated "to the Russian intelligentsia" has attracted puzzled reactions, with one of its sculptors saying the statue depicts intellectuals as "spongers."
Alfa Bank and the Union of Right Forces political party sponsored the monument, a copper Pegasus flying over bent iron and wounded by arrows, which was unveiled Tuesday outside the Andrei Sakharov Museum and Social Center.
One of the statue's sculptors, Galina Shilina, said on NTV television that the Pegasus figure represents "people who eat well, but do not work hard -- spongers."
She said the arrows ...
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