Pussy Riot
Pussy Riot | |
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Interests | Vladimir Putin |
Interest of | Simon Ostrovsky |
Pussy Riot is a Russian protest group founded in August 2011. The group received global publicity by the commercially-controlled media when five members of the group staged a performance inside Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour on February 21, 2012.[1]
Activites
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.
VOINA Art Group
Pussy Riot is connected to the VOINA Art Group (2006 - 2013), whose performance art included:[2][3][4]
- staging of a public porn scene at the Timiryazev Museum in Moscow
- the staged hanging of an immigrant and a homosexual in a supermarket
- the painting of a male phallus on a St. Petersburg Bridge
According to other accounts also:[5]
- the overturning of police cars
- the firebombing of property with petrol bombs
Appearances in media/entertainment
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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.[6][7][8]
References
- ↑ https://www.rt.com/news/pussy-riot-commemoration-cathedral-203/
- ↑ Pussy Riot Goes Back to Jail - Vice News
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20210127033335/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuck_for_the_heir_Puppy_Bear!
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20170904143317/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voina
- ↑ https://snippits-and-slappits.blogspot.com/2012/08/russian-punkers-get-2-years-jail-for-us.html saved at Archive.org saved at Archive.is
- ↑ https://slate.com/culture/2015/03/pussy-riot-in-house-of-cards-watch-new-pussy-riot-video.html
- ↑ https://finance.yahoo.com/news/pussy-riot-makes-bold-cameo-230116604.html
- ↑ http://archive.today/2021.02.26-012950/https://houseofcards.fandom.com/wiki/Pussy_Riot