Five members of Pussy Riot were sentenced in absentia on charges related to anti-war performances critical of Russia’s military actions, a representative for the group confirmed to Rolling Stone on Monday. As Mediazona — an outlet co-founded by Pussy Riot members — reports and their rep confirms, the members sentenced …
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Pussy Riot showed solidarity on “No Kings” Day, participating in the march in Los Angeles on Saturday. They joined the demonstration while displaying a red banner that read, “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Russia.” The march in downtown Los Angeles drew about 20,000 people, and was one of …
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Pussy Riot called Vladimir Putin and the Russian government “murderers” at a protest Sunday in Germany following the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. The group’s creatorNadya Tolokonnikova and fellow members of the protest and performance art collective staged the demonstration outside the Russian embassy in Berlin, where a makeshift …
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Russia has arrested at least 400 people across the country for protesting the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who was imprisoned in a Russian penal colony when he died suddenly on Friday. Among those detained is a priest, Father Grigory Mikhnov-Vaitenko, who was planning to lead a St. Petersberg …
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The feminist protest art collective Pussy Riot will serve as the subjects of a forthcoming limited series currently in development at STX Entertainment. The scripted series will be based on the upcoming memoir from founder Nadya Tolokonnikova, which traces the group’s origin story and subsequent run-ins with the law. “I …
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Avenged Sevenfold have teamed with Pussy Riot‘s Nadya Tolokonnikova for a new rendition of their jazzy metal mindfuck “We Love You,” a track off this year’s Life Is But a Dream… album. The new version, “We Love You Moar,” features Tolokonnikova singing the song’s chant: “More power, more pace/More money, …
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Pussy Riot is plotting their return with a U.S. tour. On Tuesday, the Russian feminist protest group announced their “Riot Days” tour. The Riot Days collective — currently comprising Maria “Masha” Alyokhina, Diana Burkot, Olga Broisova, and Alina Petrova — will start their tour in Montreal on Nov. 1, before …
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Boys Noize and Pussy Riot have a simple message for Putin and the rest of the patriarchy: “Put it in a dick cage.” On “Chastity,” their new joint single, which also features Alice Glass, they play with sexual power dynamics – “When I say ‘sit,’ you sit/When I say ‘crawl,’ …
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Nadya Tolokonnikova, the most visible member of the artist-activist collective Pussy Riot, is now on Russia’s most wanted criminals list. The Associated Press reports that earlier today a Russian news outlet, Mediazona, found Tolokonnikova’s name on the Russian Interior Ministry’s database, which claimed Tolokonnikova faced criminal charges without specifying what …
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Pussy Riot will be honored with the 2023 Woody Guthrie Prize on May 6. The award presentation, set for Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa, will take place as part of the Woody Guthrie Center’s 10th Anniversary Celebration, to be held May 5-7. The Russian band will perform their Riot Days multimedia …
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