Mural of Putin kissing Trump destroyed in Vilnius

  • 2016-08-13
  • BNS/TBT Staff/Vilnius
A street mural portraying US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump kissing Russian President Vladimir Putin was demolished Thursday night. "We do not consider this to be simple vandalism — it is a terrorising attack on freedom of speech in Lithuania," artist Dominykas Ceckauskas is quoted as saying on the Facebook page of fast food restaurant Keule Ruke, which he co-owns and on the wall of which the mural was painted. "The purpose of the attack was to remind us, the people of the free world, that there are still active advo...
 
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