Madonna urges leniency for Pussy Riot

telegraph.co.uk (10 months and 13 days ago)

Aug 7, 2012

Madonna urged Russia on Monday not to jail three women from the punk band Pussy Riot for staging a protest in a church, while jailed former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky likened their trial to a medieval inquisition. full story

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Pussy Riot Makes First U.S. Appearance

Two members of Russian feminist collective and punk band Pussy Riot doffed their balaclavas to speak with a group of activists at Lower East Side bookstore Bluestockings this week. The women made their first-ever visit to the U.S. in order to promote the June 10 HBO documentary Pussy Riot: A ... More »

nymag.com (13 days ago)

Pussy Riot Member: 'What Happened to Us Is Unacceptable'

A member of Pussy Riot freed on appeal last year says she has no regrets about the "punk-prayer" protest that prompted Russian authorities to arrest her and two bandmates who are currently serving time in labor camps Yekaterina Samutsevich told 60 Minutes last night that Pussy Riot's February 2012 demonstration against...

rollingstone.com (2 months and 27 days ago)

The ‘Riot’ act

Pussy Riot, a totally talentless, self-righteous punk not-rock group - who are better at self-promotion than Donald Trump - are the subjects of an endless documentary on HBO about their feminist courage. In case you don’t know them, Pussy Riot is as ridiculous an overblown Russian phenomenon as Anna Chapman, the...

nypost.com (12 days ago)

VIDEO: Lingerie Ad Calls To Free Pussy Riot

Hooligans in thigh-highs! A year after Russian band Pussy Riot was charged with "hooliganism" after performing their controversial "Punk Prayer" -- which called to "Chase Putin Away" -- in a Moscow church, Berlin-based lingerie brand Blush has brought their cause back in the spotlight. In 2012, band members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina were sentenced to two...

huffingtonpost.com (2 months and 27 days ago)

Pussy Riot and zombies coming out of the closet

Punk music is a dangerous game in some corners of the world, as detailed in the revealing HBO documentary “Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer.” Directed by Mike Lerner and Maxim Pozdorovkin, and assembled rapidly after a six-month shoot, “Pussy Riot” presents as full a portrait as we’ve seen of the three balaclava-wearing young women arrested and imprisoned following their protest...

standard.net (11 days ago)

Paul McCartney asks Russian court to release Pussy Riot

A Russian court denied parole on Thursday to a member of the Pussy Riot punk group.The ruling came despite letters that singers Paul McCartney, Peter Gabriel and Patti Smith have sent, urging Russia's courts to free Maria Alekhina and the other Pussy Riot still in prison, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova.

nydailynews.com (27 days ago)