The backdrop to the entire 2014 Winter Olympics has been shrouded in controversy since the location of the games was announced the better side of a decade ago, making the most recent news to come out of Putin’s games even less surprising: members of the punk girl revolutionary group, Pussy Riot, were attacked by roving […]
Pussy Riot Released From Prison
Two members of Russian all-women punk band Pussy Riot were released from prison two months early, after having spent nearly two years behind bars for performing a punk-infused protest in Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow. The act brought hooliganism charges against three of the band’s members, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alekhina and Yekaterina Samutsevich. Shortly […]