Declining freedoms evident in stories of Russian artists forced to respond to government meddling | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

Krovostok The lyrics of a rap group created in the early 2000s by two art college graduates were ruled illegal by a local court in the Russian city of Yaroslavl on Wednesday. The court agreed with the prosecution in its allegations that the band’s songs contain descriptions of killings, drug propaganda and “calls to deny human…