Pussy Riot
Pussy Riot song protests against war in Ukraine and calls for Putin to be prosecuted
The collective said Mama, Don’t Watch TV – a reference to the words of a captured Russian conscript soldier – rails against the Russian leader’s ‘bloodthirsty puppets’ and ‘war criminals’
Laura Snapes
24, Dec, 2022 @9:00 AM
Beaten, jailed, exiled and still taunting Putin: inside Pussy Riot’s filthy, furious show
They fled Russia disguised as food couriers. Now a major exhibition is celebrating the collective’s decade of punky protest art, from a urine-splattered portrait of Putin to the cathedral gig that landed them in prison
Stuart Jeffries
28, Nov, 2022 @8:00 AM
I saw the magnificent Pussy Riot last night. If only the world had listened to what they were saying a decade ago | Zoe Williams
For years the world saw Putin as almost a figure of fun – while in Russia he was already meting out brutality to dissidents and LGBTQ+ activists, writes Zoe Williams
Zoe Williams
07, Nov, 2022 @3:46 PM
From Bullet Train to Pussy Riot: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment
Whether you want to join Brad Pitt in Japan for the commute from hell or stay home with a noisy Russian art collective, our critics have you covered for the next seven days
06, Aug, 2022 @5:00 AM
Pussy Riot: Matriarchy Now review – a gleeful up yours to orthodoxy
Ideology grinds against a kitsch, hypersexual aesthetic in the Russian rebels’ bizarre yet sometimes brilliant debut mixtape
Emily Mackay
05, Aug, 2022 @7:30 AM
‘We have a new Hitler in Russia’: Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina on Putin’s crimes and her years of resistance
The musician and activist has escaped her homeland – but its repression still torments her. She talks about being beaten and jailed, nuclear threats and the dangerous power of women
Zoe Williams
11, Jul, 2022 @5:00 AM
‘It felt like history itself’ – 48 protest photographs that changed the world
Protest can change everything. Which is why governments around the world want to suppress it. In a week when thousands in the US expressed their fury over Roe v Wade, we look back at some of the images that helped rewrite laws and change the way we think
Gabrielle Schwarz and Felix Bazalgette. Introduction: George Monbiot
02, Jul, 2022 @7:00 AM
Cutting works by Russian artists is ‘stupid’, says Pussy Riot member
Maria Alyokhina calls on artistic community to unite over Ukraine and repression in Russia
Rachel Hall
20, Jun, 2022 @11:01 PM
‘It was foolproof’: Pussy Riot activist tells of courier-suit escape from Russia
Lucy Shtein fled Moscow in late March; now she can tell her story after her girlfriend got out the same way
Pjotr Sauer
11, May, 2022 @5:45 PM
‘Our voices are louder if we stay’: Russian anti-war activists refuse to flee
Thousands of people have left the country but a small group are determined to keep challenging Vladimir Putin despite the risks
Andrew Roth and Pjotr Sauer
27, Mar, 2022 @7:00 AM
Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova: ‘You cannot play nice with Putin. He is insane. He might open fire on his own people’
The Russian artist – who spent two years in a Siberian jail for singing an anti-Putin ‘punk prayer’ – is using NFTs to fight the dictator, raising $7m in five days. At a time like this, she says, only activism will keep you sane
Zoe Williams
08, Mar, 2022 @3:13 PM
Prominent supporters of Alexei Navalny face ‘indefinite’ house arrest
Pussy Riot members among those caught up in what activists say is a Kremlin attempt to ‘shut down’ anti-Putin protests
Luke Harding
17, Mar, 2021 @3:22 PM
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