Russian artist, Victoria Lomasko, creates drawings and murals which have established her as one of the country’s most exciting artistic exports. Her ground-breaking book ‘Other Russias’ (2017) offers a fascinating glimpse into the everyday experiences of ordinary people pushed to the margins during the Putin era. Receiving international acclaim for its contemporary interpretation of 21st century life in Russia, the book has now been translated into 6 different languages. Russian, however, is not one of them. Victoria’s work is banned within her own country. Victoria Lomasko's artist father was commissioned to produce pro-government works, but disagreed with the Russian regime. '[He] tried to rebel, but it was a senseless rebellion without any results'. By contrast, all of Lomasko's work centres around dissent from government-mandated opinion. 'My book hasn’t been published in Russia. And they’ve recently told me that it couldn’t be published, because it was violating so many new laws', she explains. 'Some are comparing this era with Soviet times, because they also controlled everything', says Lomasko.