Photographer Covers the Russian Army in Crimea

Photos by Sergey Ponomarev On an assignment by The New York Times to cover the unrest in Ukraine, Moscow based photographer Sergey Ponomarev, found himself covering more than he expected. Within just a few days of arriving to Crimea, a very military based city, Ponomarev has been witnessing a rising number of Russian troops surrounding the area. […]

Pussy Riot Members Attacked in Sochi

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 […]

[Video] Pussy Riot Visits The Colbert Report

One of the biggest stories to hit the international registry over the past few years was the jailing of the all-woman punk rock band Pussy Riot by the Russian government in early March following a wild punk-inspired protest at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior of the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow. The court case […]

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 […]