There are 15 results

• 

  Pussy Riot Protests Inevitably Inspire Cheesy Lingerie Commercial

  March 25, 2013 – When a protest movement becomes a fashion statement, it can help the movement become more popular, but it can also have the unintended consequence of spreading the fashion without the statement. …
  Read on

• 

  Pussy Riot Drummer Who Eluded Arrest Says Band Is Still Active Underground

  March 24, 2013 – With two members incarcerated, Russian punk band Pussy Riot continues to practice in secret, drummer "Kot" revealed in an interview with 60 Minutes.Kot, of course, is a pseudonym; the several women who make up the feminist protest group perform in brightly colored balaclavas to conceal their identities. …
  Read on

• 

  HBO Picks Up Pussy Riot Documentary for June Premiere

  March 15, 2013 – A documentary chronicling Pussy Riot's internationally publicized legal struggles is set to premiere on HBO later this year.According to Rolling Stone, the film, titled Pussy Riot - A Punk Prayer, will debut on the premium cable channel in early June. …
  Read on

• 

  Pussy Riot Member, Already in Prison, Moves to Hospital

  February 1, 2013 – Pussy Riot's circumstances within Russia have taken a turn for the worse at a time when the Moscow feminist punk collective's recognition continues to grow globally.One of the group's two imprisoned members has gone to the hospital, the AP reports. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova was exhausted from overwork at a harsh prison colony and had previously complained of headaches, a fellow band member said. …
  Read on

• 

  Pussy Riot Protest Footage Scrubbed From Russian Internet

  January 31, 2013 – Video footage of Pussy Riot's now infamous protest performance in Moscow's main cathedral has been banned in Russia and must be blocked from the country's Internet, the Associated Press reports.Pussy Riot member Yekaterina Samutsevich, whose two-year prison sentence was suspended, filed an appeal of a lower court's November 2012 ruling that the clip was "extremist" and should be removed from Russian websites. …
  Read on

• 

  Bikini Kill's Tobi Vail Pays Tribute to Pussy Riot

  January 25, 2013 – Pussy Riot!: A Punk Prayer for Freedom is crucial reading material for anyone interested in the plight of the Russian feminist punk collective Pussy Riot. The group drew the attention of human rights advocates around the world last year when bandmembers were arrested and charged with felony hooliganism motivated by religious hatred for protesting against President Putin inside a Moscow cathedral. …
  Read on

• 

  Jay-Z, PSY, and Pussy Riot Join Heads of State as 'TIME' Person of the Year Nominees

  November 28, 2012 – Jay-Z, PSY, and Pussy Riot are among the 38 nominees for TIME's 2012 Person of the Year. The hip-hop mogul, South Korean pop sensation, and Russian punk band keep quite the company — Barack Obama, Jon Stewart, Paul Ryan, and the Mars Rover are just some of the other candidates. …
  Read on

• 

  Pussy Riot Get Jesus Endorsement on 'South Park'

  November 1, 2012 – Mostly imprisoned Russian fire-starters Pussy Riot have been shown mucho American love from Madonna, Green Day, Ad-Rock and everyone in between; and now they can add Jesus to that list — sort of. …
  Read on

• 

  Pussy Riot Members Shipped Off to Distant Prison Colonies

  October 22, 2012 – The punishment for a "punk prayer," under Russian president Vladimir Putin, has a whiff of the Soviet-era gulag about it.The two imprisoned members of Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot were transferred over the weekend from Moscow prison to remote locations, the AP reports. …
  Read on

• 

  Pussy Riot Member Freed, Because She Was Arrested Too Soon to Protest

  October 10, 2012 – Finally, one member of Pussy Riot is free. A Moscow court has suspended the sentence for the feminist Russian punk group's Yekaterina Samutsevich, according to the Hollywood Reporter. …
  Read on