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Russian Activist Group Pussy Riot Claims Responsibility For Pitch Invasion At World Cup Final

Russian Activist Group Pussy Riot Claims Responsibility For Pitch Invasion At World Cup Final

The 2018 World Cup has just concluded, with France convincingly defeating Croatia, 4-2, and bagging its second World Cup after its first-ever win in 1998. But aside from what actually happened during the game, Sunday’s World Cup final in Russia also stood out for an unexpected incident where four people ran onto the pitch and […]

6y ago

Ai Weiwei, Edward Snowden, And Pussy Riot Join Hands To Fight Against Cyber Censorship

Ai Weiwei, Edward Snowden, And Pussy Riot Join Hands To Fight Against Cyber Censorship

On the eve of World Day against Cyber Censorship, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, Russian feminist punk rock group Pussy Riot, and American whistle-blower Edward Snowden have together launched a campaign to spread online protests against growing government restrictions on citizens’ expression, the Verge reports. The World Day against Cyber Censorship is celebrated on March 12 […]

8y ago

Bernie Sanders Lands Punk-Rock, Feminist Endorsement From Pussy Riot

Bernie Sanders Lands Punk-Rock, Feminist Endorsement From Pussy Riot

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, the feminist punk-rock member of Pussy Riot, has come out strong for Bernie Sanders, and plans to write a love song to the Vermont senator’s message. The Russian singer even received some boos for her support, not as if she seems to care much. According to the Daily Beast, Tolokonnikova, also known as […]

8y ago

Punk Duo ‘Pussy Riot’ Talks Trump: ‘We Laughed When Putin Rose To Power, Too’

Punk Duo ‘Pussy Riot’ Talks Trump: ‘We Laughed When Putin Rose To Power, Too’

Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump has courted controversy once again with his remarks in support of controversial Russian President Vladimir Putin. As Inquisitr reported earlier, Donald Trump has stated Putin’s support was a “great honor,” and the real estate billionaire hopes to work closely with the Russian president if he’s elected. While Trump’s numbers in […]

9y ago

Putin: America Is Godless, ‘Morally Bankrupt,’ And On The ‘Path Of Degradation’ [Video]

Putin: America Is Godless, ‘Morally Bankrupt,’ And On The ‘Path Of Degradation’ [Video]

Russian President Vladimir Putin condemned the United States by saying Americans have chosen a “path of degradation.” In addition, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill I of Moscow, echoed Putin’s perception of Western countries, accusing them of engaging in the “spiritual disarmament” of their people. Patriarch Kirill is specific in criticizing a […]

9y ago

Russian Duo, Pussy Riot Releases First English Song ‘I Can’t Breathe’ in Honor of Eric Garner

Russian Duo, Pussy Riot Releases First English Song ‘I Can’t Breathe’ in Honor of Eric Garner

Russian music duo Pussy Riot just released their first song in English and it has everyone talking. The group compiled of Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova has made their English speaking debut in honor of the late Eric Garner, by titling their song “I Can’t Breathe,” and following it with a music video which suggests […]

9y ago

Pussy Riot: Russian Punk Band Releases ‘I Can’t Breathe’ Tribute to Eric Garner [Video]

Pussy Riot: Russian Punk Band Releases ‘I Can’t Breathe’ Tribute to Eric Garner [Video]

Controversial Russian punk band Pussy Riot have released their first song in English and true to form, the song is a rebellious and anti-establishment tribute to Eric Garner, the black man choked to death by New York police officers. Garner’s death in July 2014 led to a wave of protest across the U.S. with many […]

9y ago

Woman Sexually Assaulted By Cops Only Sentenced To 3 Months In Jail…What? [Video]

Woman Sexually Assaulted By Cops Only Sentenced To 3 Months In Jail…What? [Video]

Cecily McMillan, the Occupy Wall Street activist who was filmed being sexually assaulted by NYPD officers, has been sentenced to 3 months in jail. McMillan was originally facing more than 7 years behind bars after being convicted of elbowing the man who assaulted her. The scenario was very simple. McMillan was attending an Occupy Wall […]

10y ago

OOPS! Pussy Riot Show Their Claws with Feral Behavior

OOPS! Pussy Riot Show Their Claws with Feral Behavior

Pussy Riot, the Russian female punk rock band, after getting arrested and stirring things up in their own homeland, have decided to get the US involved in their catastrophic hooliganism. Members of Pussy Riot were actually arrested in March 2012 for exactly that: “Hooliganism.” They were sentenced to prison for two years according to Reflector.com. […]

10y ago

Pussy Riot Asks Congress for More Russian Sanctions

Pussy Riot Asks Congress for More Russian Sanctions

The Russian punk group Pussy Riot sent two band members to Capitol Hill on Tuesday. Pussy Riot members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina had private meetings with lawmakers and later posed for photos with Senator Ben Cardin. The main purpose of the Pussy Riot visit was to ask the U.S. government to add 16 Russian […]

10y ago

Pussy Riot Goes Hollywood! ‘Independence Day’ Director Throws Bash For Russian Protesters

Pussy Riot Goes Hollywood! ‘Independence Day’ Director Throws Bash For Russian Protesters

Pussy Riot, the Russian punk-protest-anti-Putin collective, rolled into Hollywood Sunday — or at least, the group’s two most visible members did — where they were guests of honor at a celebrity-filled soireé hosted by popcorn flick director Roland Emmerich. The Pussy Riot pair, Maria Alyokhina, 25, and Nadya Tolokonnikova, 24, were swinging through Los Angeles […]

10y ago

Pussy Riot Demands Russian Prison Reform

Pussy Riot Demands Russian Prison Reform

Two former Russian Pussy Riot protesters have taken to New York City to demand prison reform. Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, who both served 22 month sentences before being freed under a general amnesty in December, were on hand at a panel at the 5th annual Women in the World summit moderated by Charlie Rose […]

10y ago

Pussy Riot Meets Hillary Clinton As Moscow Drops ‘Religious Hatred’ Charges [Video]

Pussy Riot Meets Hillary Clinton As Moscow Drops ‘Religious Hatred’ Charges [Video]

Pussy Riot is back in the United States as the two members who have become the public face of the Russian protest and punk rock collective, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, appeared Friday at the Women In The World Summit in New York. As the two women were rubbing elbows with some of the America’s […]

10y ago

Pussy Riot Unleashes Anti-Sochi Music Video, ‘Putin Will Teach You How To Love The Motherland’

Pussy Riot Unleashes Anti-Sochi Music Video, ‘Putin Will Teach You How To Love The Motherland’

Pussy Riot is back. The Russian political performance art protest collective unleashed a new music video Thursday that includes footage of the group’s members being attacked and manhandled by Russian police and, surprisingly, features the two most famous members, or ex-members, of the group who were recently kicked out of Pussy Riot. The video is […]

10y ago

Pussy Riot Members Beaten With Whips By Cossacks At Sochi [Watch]

Pussy Riot Members Beaten With Whips By Cossacks At Sochi [Watch]

Members of the Russian dissident, anti-Putin group Pussy Riot were beaten by Cossacks — Russian militia — while trying to start an impromptu performance on the Sochi Olympics grounds on Wednesday. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina — who were arrested last year after the group held a protest against President Putin in a church and […]

10y ago

Pussy Riot Members Arrested And Questioned In Sochi

Pussy Riot Members Arrested And Questioned In Sochi

Two members of Pussy Riot were arrested and questioned in Sochi, Russia. Both women, who are associated with a controversial punk band, were detained on Tuesday amid accusations of theft. Authorities identified the suspects as Mariya Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova. Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova were recently freed after spending nearly two years in a Russian prison. […]

10y ago

Pussy Riot Members Meet NYC Mayor, Get Kicked Out Of Their Band

Pussy Riot Members Meet NYC Mayor, Get Kicked Out Of Their Band

Pussy Riot met with NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio during the controversial Russian punk band’s diplomatic trip to the Big Apple — but the trip may have cost them a spot in the band. The NYC mayor welcomed Pussy Riot members Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova to City Hall on Friday. The meeting, which also […]

10y ago

Former Pussy Riot Members Meet US Ambassador To UN, Diplomatic Incident On Twitter Follows

Former Pussy Riot Members Meet US Ambassador To UN, Diplomatic Incident On Twitter Follows

The controversial punk-rock Russian band Pussy Riot, the all-girl, anti-Putin group, is creating a diplomatic stand-off…on Twitter, after a meeting two of its former members had with the US ambassador to the United Nations. This tweet by Samantha Powers — US ambassador to the UN — started the back and forth between the American and […]

10y ago

Pussy Riot Expels Freed Ex-Prisoners Now Touring United States

Pussy Riot Expels Freed Ex-Prisoners Now Touring United States

Two former members of Pussy Riot, recently released from Russian penal colonies after serving 21 months for performing a protest song against Russian President Vladimir Putin in a Moscow church, brought their message to the United States this week, appearing at a major rock concert in Brooklyn, New York, as well as on several television […]

10y ago

Pussy Riot Members Freed From Prison [Video]

Pussy Riot Members Freed From Prison [Video]

Two Pussy Riot members were freed from prison on Monday. Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova were serving two-year sentences for staging a protest against Russian President Vladimir V. Putin. Critics of the harsh punishment said the women were simply exercising free speech. The performance group Pussy Riot consists of a group of women between the […]

11y ago

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