Anger over Ivan attack

RUSSIA on Monday called for the harshest possible punishment after a visitor to Moscow’s Tretyakov Gallery caused serious damage by attacking a famous 19th-century painting of Ivan the Terrible.

On Friday, Russian police arrested a 37-year-old man who used a metal pole to break the glass covering Ilya Repin’s painting of the 16th-century tsar killing his son, damaging the work in three places.

Deputy culture minister Vladimir Aristarkhov said he expects him to receive “the most severe punishment possible”.