Pussy Riot Was Carefully Calibrated for Protest It's been a long time since punk carried a sense of danger, and longer still since it carried the beat of political change. Crackdown on Pussy Riot Has History – Analysis The Kremlin's hardline policy on flashy opposition stunts, demonstrated by the crackdown on the punk band Pussy Riot, is not something new and dates back to the early 2000s, even though the dissenters are very different now, political experts and protest veterans said. Pussy Riot Songs Added to 'Protest' Station on Slacker Radio Songs from Russian punk band Pussy Riot are now streaming on Slacker Radio's "Protest" station amid public outcry -- online and offline -- around the world for their imprisonment. Pussy Riot divides Russian society The Moscow court's August 17 decision to sentence three members of the Russian punk-rock group Pussy Riot to two years in prison for an anti-Putin "punk prayer" in Moscow's main cathedral caused little sensation in Russia. How Russia transformed Pussy Riot into international cause célèbre The Pussy Riot trial may be over, but the fault lines it has exposed within Russia's educated and politicized elite appear deeper and more irreconcilable than anyone might have thought when the three women were arrested after performing a profane anti-Putin "punk prayer" in Russia's premier Orthodox cathedral last February. Vivian Girls, Kremlin Head play L.A. benefit for Pussy Riot Pussy Riot, the embattled Russian punk band whose members are serving prison time after being convicted Friday on charges of hooliganism, will be the recipients of a Los Angeles benefit concert at all-ages punk club the Smell on Aug. 27. Local support for Pussy Riot The Pussy Riot verdict was met by protests all over the world and a new song released by other members of the group. Rod Dreher's Brave Stance Against Pussy Riot and in Support of Blasphemy Laws A friend just alerted me to this, but the American Conservative's Rod Dreher weighed in on the Pussy Riot verdict a few days back. And he wasn't that upset with it! You probably have seen by now that the Russian feminist punks Pussy Riot got two years in the slammer for [...] Russian police pursuing other members of Pussy Riot MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian police are hunting for more members of the Pussy Riot punk rock band, a spokeswoman said, signaling further pressure on the group despite an international outcry over jail terms for three women who protested in a church against Vladimir Putin. The Russian president's critics condemned the court proceeding that yielded the two-year prison sentences on Friday as part of ... Pussy Riot sentence brings dissent to the masses "T opless Woman Cuts Down Kiev Cross for Pussy Riot ." That headline ran at the top of a South African Web site a few days ago, accompanied by a picture of a half-naked member of a radical feminist group, chainsaw in hand, protesting the two-year jail sentence a Russian court had just handed down to three punk rockers. Al-Jazeera had a tamer headline: " Russian punk rockers jailed for ...
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012
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