28 November 2007
Central House of Artist, Moscow

Action video footage, clip, 3 min. 48 sec.

On November 28 2007 at the opening of the “Non-fiction” book fair the Voina group presented the “Plan of Putin”. During preparations for the 9th annual intellectual book fair the organizers stepped forward with an idea of a monument to the late poet Prigov in the Central House of Artist [CHA] in Moscow. Voina was assigned to complete the task. As the project was in its final stage the administration of the CHA demanded that the group be ideological and rough in its work. The board of directors and members of the Voina group decided all together that it would not be possible to fill art with the necessary Putinist content without a radical modification of artistic form.

Sheep were first covertly sneaked in the CHA.
During the opening ceremony sheep-hugging female activists rode down banners from the balcony to the main floor to give the Voina definition of the Plan of Putin.

The Plan of Putin was widely publicized at the book fair in time for the upcoming parliamentary elections. Three days after the opening, on December 2, the “United Russia” party won an overwhelming majority to allow Putin to proceed with his assault on the Russian people and their freedoms.