pussy riot

Since being sentenced in August on charges of hooliganism, three members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot have been in custody, but after an appeal with new defense, Yekaterina Samutsevich was released Wednesday. The other two members still remain in custody and scheduled to serve their two-year sentences in separate prisons. Samutsevich's new defense team […]

A judge in Moscow has sentenced three members of Pussy Riot to two years in prison on charges of hooliganism driven by religious hatred, following international protests over the arrest. The band were originally arrested in March after an impromptu performance in Moscow's main cathedral, playing a song that called for the Virgin Mary to […]

(Above: Russian feminist punks Pussy Riot) Interesting new Op-Ed at the New York Times today, in which Jessica Bruder talks about the growing resistant punk movement across the world while lamenting its demise in the US and UK. An excerpt: “The idea that music can help change things, rather than just sell expensive coats, isn’t very […]

A new article titled “Punk's Cultural Revolution” takes a look at Russian feminist punks Pussy Riot, members of which have been facing criminal charges of hooliganism related to protests against the Russian Orthodox Church and Russian president-elect Vladimir Putin. Via Salon: “The band has derived their success — and scorn — by turning contemporary punk […]

(Photo: Andrey Smirnov/AFP/Getty) A new update on the ongoing story of Russian feminist punk group Pussy Riot, a group in which members are currently incarcerated and awaiting trial on charges of hooliganism for a Feb. 21 performance at Cathedral of Christ the Saviour: Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, has come out and claimed the three […]

The BBC reports today that two members of Russian feminist punk group Pussy Riot remain in custody after overrunning the pulpit of a church last month and protesting Russian president-elect Vladimir Putin. The women, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Mariya Alekhina, will be held until Apr. 24 and could face up to seven years in prison for the […]