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Russian Deputies Back Fines For Clicking On 'Extremist' Content

Russian lawmakers on Thursday advanced a bill that would outlaw opening or searching for content online judged "extremist", such as songs glorifying Ukraine and material by feminist rock band Pussy Riot.

International Business Times

Pussy Riot’s founder built a ‘police state’ in an LA art gallery. Then the national guard arrived

Nadya Tolokonnikova tells the Guardian she felt she had ‘entered a wormhole’ when her police state exhibition was shut down – by the police state

The Guardian - US

The Last Word: ‘painfully poignant’ play gives a voice to women silenced by Russia’s legal system

Anna Narinskaya’s play The Last Word, which has transferred to London’s Marylebone Theatre after its premiere in Berlin in 2022, gives voice to nine women who have fallen foul of the Russian legal system in recent years.

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NY governor's subway mask ban proposal sparks debate over right to anonymous protest

A new proposal by Gov. Kathy Hochul to ban masks on the New York subway is drawing pushback from disability advocates and civil liberties, who say the measure could violate the right to protest anonymously

The Independent UK

The week in classical: Riot Symphony; L’Olimpiade; LSO/Tilson Thomas review – humanity and hope

Pussy Riot and a young anti-Nazi protester inspire an exhilarating world premiere; an offstage stand-in steals the show in Irish National Opera’s latest elegant Vivaldi; and the LSO rallies around a much-loved conductor

The Guardian - UK

‘The anti-pet of bourgeois life’: why the world needs big cat energy

Whether by striking workers, poets or Pussy Riot, our feline friends have long been used as a symbol of resistance – radical by nature, they refuse to be tamed

The Guardian - UK

Russia Sentences Pussy Riot Activist To Eight Years

Pussy Riot activist sentenced to 8 years in Russia for 'war fakes' on Ukraine, sparking global outrage and concerns about freedom of speech.

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Who is Ilya Ponomarev, the anti-war Russian renegade exiled in Ukraine?

Ponomarev, once a liberal parliamentarian, likens himself to Charles de Gaulle. Does he really pose a threat to Putin?

Al Jazeera

Pussy Riot TV series in the works

Limited series will be based on the forthcoming memoir from founding member Nadya Tolokonnikova

The Independent UK

‘I am ready to share this story’: Pussy Riot TV series in the works

The limited series on the Russian feminist collective will be based on the forthcoming memoir by founder Nadya Tolokonnikova

The Guardian - US

Pussy Riot founder protests Indiana’s ban on nearly all abortions

Nadya Tolokonnikova performed in front of the state’s supreme court and debuted the group’s new single, God Save Abortion

The Guardian - US

Pussy Riot’s Tolokonnikova: ‘Russia wants me poisoned, dead, or in jail’

A founding member of the punk feminist art collective, who is wanted in Russia, talks to Al Jazeera.

Al Jazeera

‘I want to express rage’: Ukrainian punks Death Pill take fury on tour

The trio are back in Kyiv, preparing to kick off their first European tour, raging against Putin – and doing a lot of hugging

The Guardian - UK

This Week in the Metaverse: NFT.NYC showed how NFTs are transforming art and getting artists their well-earned share

The technology is leading to a renaissance of creative work—and artists getting paid.

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Pussy Riot's Nadya Tolokonnikova has been placed on a 'Wanted' list by Russian authorities

Nadya Tolokonnikova from feminist punk band Pussy Riot issues a statement after being placed on a Russian wanted criminal list

The Independent UK

Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova placed on Russia’s most wanted list

Tolokonnikova has been a long-time activist and critic of Vladimir Putin and the Russian regime

The Independent UK

Pussy Riot release Ukraine war protest song and call for Putin to be tried

The group is known for staging protests often against the actions taken by the Russian government and officials.

Reuters

Pussy Riot members detained at World Cup final, activists say

Members of Russia's Pussy Riot band were detained on Sunday after trying to storm the pitch at the World Cup final in Qatar to protest the war in Ukraine, the imprisonment of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and the oppression of women in Iran, activists said.

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Brittney Griner facing 'terrible' life at remote penal colony in Russia

The inmates at IK-2 penal colony rise at 6 a.m. each day for a breakfast of milk porridge, bread and tea. Soon they leave their barracks at this aging facility about 300 miles southeast of Moscow, in the isolated republic of Mordovia.

The Guardian - UK

Beaten, jailed, exiled and still taunting Putin: inside Pussy Riot’s filthy, furious show

They fled Russia disguised as food couriers. Now a major exhibition is celebrating the collective’s decade of punky protest art, from a urine-splattered portrait of Putin to the cathedral gig that landed them in prison

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Simon Schama meets Pussy Riot in new personal project

The historian also speaks with George Orwell’s son in a new history series. Plus: the chaos continues in SAS Rogue Heroes. Here’s everything ton watch this evening

WEKU

A Pussy Riot member describes what Brittney Griner can expect in Russian penal colony

Maria Alyokhina was sent to a penal colony as a member of the feminist punk collective. Authorities "teach you how to forget your right to choose," she says. She urges Griner "to not forget yourself."

The National (Scotland)

'Going back to Russia is a straight road to jail,' says punk group Pussy Riot

A SHORT while ago Taso Pletner thought she would never stray outside of Russia – but now she’s not sure when or if she’ll be able to return.

The Guardian - UK

I saw the magnificent Pussy Riot last night. If only the world had listened to what they were saying a decade ago

For years the world saw Putin as almost a figure of fun – while in Russia he was already meting out brutality to dissidents and LGBTQ+ activists, writes Zoe Williams

Reuters

Pussy Riot's Alyokhina urges West to confront 'abuser' Putin with strength

She spent nearly two years in a Russian penal colony for protesting against President Vladimir Putin, but it took almost another decade - and the invasion of Ukraine - before Maria Alyokhina reluctantly decided it was time to leave her country.

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