Pussy Riot
Pussy Riot And Dostoevskian Protest
by Nick Glossop on October 28, 2012
What is Pussy Riot’s ‘Idea’?
Sitting recently in a café in the company of various activists and artists after a cultural event in Moscow, a young and impassioned activist, who had impressed the oppositional milieu with her speeches in recent protest rallies, introduced her friend to me as a ‘Voina group activist and author of Pussy Riot projects’. The unknown author just nodded and continued tapping his iPad. I wondered
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Pussy Riot ~ Samutsevich Freed On Appeal
by Nick Glossop on October 10, 2012
A little over a week after she fired her legal team for unspecified differences in point of view, Yekaterina Samutsevich has been freed on appeal, her sentence suspended.
The Moscow City Court ruled that Yekaterina Samutsevich’s sentence should be suspended because she was thrown out of the cathedral by guards before she could remove her guitar from its case and take part in the performance.
“The punishment for an incomplete
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Pussy Riot ~ Kremlin Hints At Early Release
by Nick Glossop on September 12, 2012
Matryoshka Riot
Pussy Riot three should be freed, says Russian PM Dmitri Medvedev
Dmitri Medvedev, the Russian prime minister, has called for three members of the punk band Pussy Riot to be freed, saying further time in prison would be “unproductive.”
Medvedev’s comments could signal the imminent release of the band members, whose case comes up for appeal on 1 October.
- Guardian
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Pussy Riot ~ Our Country Is Dominated By Evil Men
by Nick Glossop on September 7, 2012
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FEMEN In Exile
by Nick Glossop on September 6, 2012
Caution: sacrilege and mammaries (NSFW)
A member of Ukrainian feminist group, Femen, who cut down a wooden crucifix while being topless in Kiev in support of Russian punk band Pussy Riot, has fled Ukraine, the group said on its website.
Femen said Inna Shevchenko had been under 24-hour surveillance by officers of the Security Service of Ukraine for two weeks and the group feared she might be arrested.
“The
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Snaps From The Underground ~ Soviet/Post-Soviet Punk
by Nick Glossop on August 29, 2012
Red Teddies, Leningrad 1984 c/o Alexander Boyko, from the archive of Ruslan Ziggelya
From the Barrelhouse has assembled an excellent gallery of images from the Russian underground scene (1980 – 2012): Teds, Mods, Punks, Bikers (and of course, Pussy Riot). Check them all out.
Willie and friends shooting the movie “Without a uniform.” Volgograd, 1988. From the archive of Villi.
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Pussy Riot ~ Comic Relief
by Nick Glossop on August 26, 2012
Bank
Cop – Freeze! You are under arrest!
- Ha-ha, this is just a funny misunderstanding, Captain. Clearly you’ve taken us for some sort of Pussy Riot supporters, but we’re only wearing these balaclavas to rob this bank. Look, sacks full of money and everything…
Cop – So I see. My apologies. You are free to go.
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Sapien Cinema ~ Mark Of Cain
by Nick Glossop on August 26, 2012
The tattooing gun is fashioned from an electric razor, a ballpoint pen and some guitar string.
This is a very courageous documentary on the tattooing subculture in Russian prisons. I don’t know how it ever got made, but it’s beautiful, scary, and heartbreaking
- David Cronenberg
I have been waiting for some time for a reason to post this film, and I suppose Pussy Riot beginning their prison terms is …
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Vadim Nikitin: The Wrong Reasons to Back Pussy Riot
by Andrew Loewen on August 22, 2012
If the Russian state has attempted to hooliganize Pussy Riot, many in the West have (wittingly or not) domesticated the women, stripping the group of its genuine radicalism and co-opting their fight into the safe discourse of “free speech” and legal normativity. Presumably wishing to disabuse its readers of naive support for a group of anarchists (see: radical anti-capitalists), the New York Times has published a nice provocation on the …
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GULag Humor
by Nick Glossop on August 20, 2012
A new ZEK arrives in the GULag. Her cellmates size her up, then send over one of their number to make inquiries.
- So what did you get?
New ZEK: I got 20 years.
- What for?
New ZEK: For nothing.
- Aha! You are a liar. They only give you 10 years for nothing.
(Ba-Bom Ching) Thank you very much, you really have been a wonderful audience.…
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Pussy Riot Convicted!
by Matthew Payne on August 17, 2012
So, Just Who is the “Hooligan” in this Picture? (c/o UK Telegraph)
To the surprise of absolutely no one, Pussy Riot was convicted in a Russian court:
Judge Marina Syrova convicted the women of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred, saying they had “crudely undermined social order”.
Well, then. It would almost be comical to read the deliberate stupidity of this verdict, with its schoolmarm’s hectoring tone, if it were …
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Matryoshka Riot!
by Nick Glossop on August 13, 2012
Via Dangerous Minds…
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