7 years of prison for pussy riot?

my butt was on RT with some other butts that in concert had FREE PUSSY RIOT written on them while pointed at the russian embassy

I know if there's one person that can sway Putin and his gang, it's Chloe Sevigny!

damn a hoos butt even down for some insurrection

Free Hoos Butt

Pussy Riot

FREE PUSSY RIOT

WHO:
PUSSY RIOT

WHAT:
PUSSY RIOT

WHERE:
PUSSY RIOT

WHEN:
PUSSY RIOT

^ chorus

From BBC News:

BREAKING NEWS: Three women from the Russian punk band Pussy Riot found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred

World goes back that little step further into the Middle Ages.

Fittingly some middle aged and Middle Aged cockfarming Oxford professor was defending Putin on Today this morning.

The verdict was pretty much inevitable. The sentencing will be the critical thing here.

But guys! Guys! The Ecuadorean embassy could still ~totally~ offer them asylum, right?

Oh.

From The Guardian:

Some very blunt words from pop star Kate Nash, who perhaps far more than Madonna has the power to get a lot of teenage girls from around the world mobilized in favour of Pussy Riot.

Or possibly not.

I'm rather disappointed in the internet tbh. No pet owners have recreated the girls' video as "puppy riot"

Oh, and the Guardian has shortened that Kate Nash bit already. And Gary Kasparov has been arrested at a protest.

Will there be a statue one day, like Zappa in Prague?

Gary Kasparov news from the Quietus.

I went to a Free Pussy Riot flashmob protest yesterday, there was quite a turn out. A lot more action across the country planned for today. I don't really know what we can do except keep on raising awareness and hope international pressure gets this overturned. I think Kasparov's pretty much right, though, as long as money still flows Putin doesn't care.

Two years in jail is really shocking.

Could be a set-up for clemency, but still.

The judge should be jailed for disrupting the social order with this sentence.

two years for "not showing respect" just seems so unjustifiable - it's horrible to think that there are people out there who'd think that's an appropriate sentence.

How many people would have to go into a church and do the exact same thing before the government realised they couldn't just keep locking people up? Not a rhetorical question, but I suspect the number is shockingly high.

there's a whooooole lotta prison space in Russia iirc

so sad, so disgusting

reast in peace, pussy riot

Critics of the band have also been demonstrating, saying the stunt was an insult to the Russian Orthodox Church.

One, Igor Kim, told the BBC News website from Moscow: "Shouting and screaming and spreading hate in Church is unacceptable and is contrary with Christian ethics."

One protester outside court in Moscow simply shouted: "Let Pussy Riot and all their supporters burn in hell."

Oh, lemme get that straight - wishing people would burn in (some fictional place they don't even believe in) is acceptable and in line with Christian ethics, then? Nice.

It was really, really dumb for them to do this considering that a couple of them have kids. Like, time served has probably seriously fucked all their lives up already.

I had been under an impression this whole time that most of Russia was atheist, so I'm pretty surprised about all the hubbub surrounding this.

Can you please just clarify who you mean by the "them" in the assertion of dumbness?

The fucking band! They have kids and stuff and yet they go and do these weird public protest things. Not very well thought out.

wishing people would burn in (some fictional place they don't even believe in) is acceptable and in line with Christian ethics, then?

yeah, that one's traditional

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so people who have kids should never protest at anything?

Religion's a huge deal in Russia. I assume it was a risk they felt that they needed to take, aware of the consequences.

xp: people who have kids need to prioritize their shit.

Like, do you want to give your kids a good life or do you really want to do some stupid punk-rock puppet show thing that really offends a lot of people but doesn't change anything?

Um, that really restricts quite a lot who is and isn't "allowed" to protest in a way that I'm really not prepared to accept.

In fact, that whole idea is unbelievably o_0 to me.

from Yekaterina Samutsevich's closing statement:

"the authorities took advantage of a certain deficit of the Orthodox aesthetic in Soviet times, when the Orthodox religion had an aura of lost history, of something that had been crushed and damaged by the Soviet totalitarian regime, and was thus an opposition culture. The authorities decided to appropriate this historical effect of loss and present a new political project to restore Russia’s lost spiritual values, a project that has little to do with a genuine concern for the preservation of Russian Orthodoxy’s history and culture."

http://nplusonemag.com/pussy-riot-closing-statements

If I want to do both, fuck anybody who says I can't or shouldn't. xxp

well, that's what the members of pussy riot apparently thought and now they don't get to be parents to their children for 2 years!

how's life, you're surely joking?

my understanding is that, for the members of Pussy Riot, bringing up children in a Russia without protest means that those kids will never have a good life.

So, "let the wookie win" then? xp

Cis OTM. I imagine that having kids is one of those things that changes your priorities so sharply that there are things one is no longer prepared to put up with and shut up about.

once you are a mom you should never leave the house

it's far too early to say that their actions haven't changed anything

xp: I'm a dad and I'd walk a mile to stay out of the way of a protest.

zappi, I'm sure the kids will take great solace in that.

maybe they will in the future? who knows.

oh my god plz don't let this thread get fucked by this 2nd rate troll bullshit

criticizing their parenting nagl bro

WCC OTM imho

I somehow doubt they consider that shutting up and letting their kids grow up in Putin's Russia would have been a bed of roses y'know.

xxxp not trolling in the least!

BERLIN (AP) — Pyotr Verzilov, a member of Russian protest group Pussy Riot, was flown Berlin for treatment late Saturday after falling severely ill. Fellow activists say he was poisoned.
Verzilov was first hospitalized in Moscow on Tuesday and had remained in intensive care, Pussy Riot members said this week. Maria Alekhina, a member of the group, told The Associated Press that he regained consciousness Friday.

Verzilov, his partner Veronika Nikulshina and two other Pussy Riot members served 15-day jail sentences for running onto field in Moscow where soccer’s World Cup final was being played in July. Their protest of what they described as the excessive powers of Russia’s police briefly disrupted the match.

The dude has "lost his sight, speech and physical mobility," and has (temporary) amnesia. He was poisoned w/a compound of "40 or 50" drugs, designed to quickly disappear in blood & urine.

He's a dual Canadian/Russian citizen. I wonder if Canada will do or say anything.

They're "monitoring the situation".

The book by Masha Gessen, Words Will Break Cement, is fantastically illuminating about Pussy Riot and the prison sentences – including her interviews with Yekaterina Samutsevich, and correspondence with Nadya and Maria.

- https://hazlitt.net/feature/confronting-language-lies-masha-gessen-pussy-riot

Images with unexpected juxtapositions :)

https://res.cloudinary.com/cognitives/image/upload/dpr_auto,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto/zdtjijibwvllwhzizzw3
"Maria Alyokhina of Russian punk protest band Pussy Riot attended the protest. Photo: Thomas Coughlan."

Alyokhina offered her support to the (Ihumātao) protestors, saying her travels around New Zealand had made her aware of the issues surrounding Māori land rights.

“It’s an honour for me to be here and to see how powerful these people are to bring themselves together, because it’s not only about signatures, its about the voice - the powerful voice which they really have,” she said.

– (Newsroom)

This band are so much more punk than the Sex Pistols. (that is to say, none of them have turned rightwing yet)

Alyokhina dating, and making excuses for, a violently homophobic white nationalist is a bit suspect tbh.

...Dmitry Enteo, who attacked Pussy Riot's supporters in 2012.

- https://medium.com/@kharmstimes/for-me-orthodoxy-is-about-freedom-ad36e39894b9

Yes, that is a little strange :s

That seems worse than John Lydon making a commercial for butter tbf.

is it cool to talk about how horseshit this band was now?

it was a very bad commercial tho xp

PR's actual music seems like an afterthought to everything else about them, it's telling that it's barely even mentioned on this thread.

They're an art/protest collective - they didn't see themselves as musicians, and were surprised when people like Madonna treated them as such. Their original music was just "shouting and making a racket" (which may have been one of the basic ideas of punk, iirc). Their notoriety came mainly because they were put in prison in a dictatorship, unlike butter fiend Lydon over there

9 more years for Navalny

https://consequence.net/2025/09/pussy-riot-prison-sentences-russia/

Five members of Pussy Riot have been sentenced in absentia for a 2024 anti-war protest and their 2022 music video for “Mama, Don’t Watch TV.” As reported in Mediazona, the prison terms range from eight to 13 years for violating Article 207.3 of the Russian Criminal Code, which criminalizes the spreading of “false information” about the armed forces.

The charges stem from an April 2024 protest at Munich’s Pinakothek der Moderne museum, where Pussy Riot members Maria Alyokhina, Alina Petrova, and Anastasia “Taso” Pletner condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. During their performance, the group called Vladimir Putin a war criminal, and Pletner urinated on a portrait of the Russian president.

Meanwhile, prosecutors claimed Alyokhina, Pletner, Olga Borisova, Diana Burkot, and Alina Petrova spread “false information” about Russian soldiers killing Ukrainian civilians in their “Mama, Don’t Watch TV” video.