Monday, February 24, 2014

Pussy Riot in Sochi: Anti-Putin video released

After being detained multiple times in Sochi, Russia, the members of punk band Pussy Riot have finally been able to hold a news conference and release their music video for the song, “Putin Will Teach You How to Love the Motherland.”
Notorious band members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina served 21 months of their two-year sentence for performing a “punk prayer” in Moscow’s main cathedral, calling for the purge of President Vladimir Putin. After their early release in December, the band members said it was done as a publicity stunt to try and save face with the upcoming Olympics in Sochi.

Read the full article here.

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