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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 ~ Kremlin Hints At Early Release
by Nick Glossop on September 12, 2012
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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 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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Pussy Riot ~ Lady Madonna To The Rescue (Updated)
by Nick Glossop on August 10, 2012
Update: In response to Madonna’s statement in support of Pussy Riot on a Moscow stage Tuesday, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin took to Twitter:
With age, every former whore starts to give everyone lectures on morality. Especially when touring abroad. (My translation)*
You stay classy, Kremlin!
*Note that he did merely use the letter ‘б’ but as everyone, especially everyone in the Putinocracy (the Puta for short), knows perfectly …
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Pussy Riot On Inside Story
by Nick Glossop on July 31, 2012
Inside Story asks: Why does the Russian government see Pussy Riot as a threat? Could Pussy Riot spark a rebellion in Russia? And is the church a “propaganda wing” of Putin’s government?
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Pussy Riot In Cell Block Number Nine
by Nick Glossop on May 11, 2012
And today, with tens of thousands of people routinely taking to the streets, the state will think twice before trying to fabricate a criminal case and putting us away. There are loads of Pussy Riot fans in Russia’s protesting masses.
We don’t know which member of Pussy Riot made the above statement as they wore their trademark balaclavas and used pseudonyms at the interview with Vice in February. But it …
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Fists Of Negation (Boots Of The Qualitative Leap)
by Nick Glossop on April 5, 2012
Trained Sinologist René Viénet was expelled from China in 1966 for his anti-Maoist sentiments and so, perhaps, revenge was on his mind when he paired the pulp martial arts film Crush with dialogs of New Left critique-speak and radical bafflegab, but the results are hilarious. Can Dialectics Break Bricks?(1973) is a Shaolin détournement of epic contortions. Will the sadistic bureaucrats prevail, or can a lone proletarian hero defeat them, …
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Voina Is Peace
by Nick Glossop on April 27, 2011
Voina (war) is also a Russian “art-anarch-punk gang” rapidly gaining notoriety for their provocative actions including mock-lynching gays and migrants (above, the victim is dressed in blue because blue means gay in Russian), overturning police cars, projecting a Skull and Crossbones on the Moscow White House, and staging an orgy in a museum and a Rock jam in a district court. Recently the group sparked a controversy that they themselves …
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