The Politics of Pussy Riot

When Madonna calls her World Tour fans to support you, and Bjork starts to market T-shirts sporting your band’s emblem, you know you’ve rocked the world—not just the world of pop culture, but that of world news. That’s precisely what three members of the Russian feminist punk band, Pussy Riot, have done. This past February, Maria Alyokhina, Yekaterina Samutsevich, and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova held an illegal performance on a Moscow cathedral altar.

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