http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Director-of-Perms-contemporary-art-museum-fired/29982

Perm prosecutor’s launched an investigation into the finances of the White Nights festival in early June. Last week, after he was fired, Guelman tweeted that police had confiscated works by Vasily Slonov, a Siberian artist who had created the mocking painting of Stalin, to investigate them for “extremism”. Police denied taking the works, saying they used images found online in their investigation.
Guelman’s position has been precarious for some time. He opened the Perm Museum of Contemporary Art in 2009 under the then governor, Oleg Chirkunov, a businessman who was an avid supporter of the region’s modern art ambitions. Chirkunov resigned last year and the appointment of Viktor Basargin, Russia’s former regional development minister, was seen as a death knell for Perm’s contemporary art scene.