Pussy Riot

Pussy Riot
Interests	Vladimir Putin
Interest of	Simon Ostrovsky

Pussy Riot is a Russian protest group founded in August 2011. The group staged provocative performances in public places that were filmed as music videos and posted on the Internet. The group's lyrical themes included feminism, LGBT rights, opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin and his policies, and Putin's links to the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Performance art

The group gained global recognition when five members of the group staged a performance inside Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour on February 21, 2012. The group's actions were stopped by church security officials.

Earlier performance art of the group included:

• staging of a public porn scene at the Timiryazev Museum in Moscow

According to some accounts, Pussy Riot is connected to the VOINA Art Group (2006 - 2013), whose performance art included:

• the painting of a male phallus on a St. Petersburg Bridge
• the overturning of police cars
• the firebombing of property with petrol bombs
• the staged hanging of an immigrant and a homosexual in a supermarket

Appearances in media/entertainment

Full article: Hollywood

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina were playing themselves in the third season of House of Cards, as in real live at odds with the president of the Russian Federation.

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