Pussy Riot is a female punk rock band that became famous throughout the world for their antics in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. On February 21, 2012, masked girls ran onto the altar and, turning on the sound-amplifying equipment, began to sing a punk prayer "Mother of God, drive Putin away." Their performance was interrupted by the temple guards, and a video with a punk prayer hit the Internet.
Group Pussy Riot (from English - "pussy riot") was created in the fall of 2011. Since then, its participants periodically organized performances in the form of unauthorized actions. They took place in various unexpected places. Girls from Pussy Riot performed at Moscow metro stations, on the roofs of trolley buses, in the police detention center, on Red Square. The last place of the protest was the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.
The group members consider themselves to be in the third wave of feminism, and position their political views as left-wing anti-authoritarianism. They criticize the dictatorship of power, the cult of power and chauvinism, are engaged in the promotion of freedom of creativity and thought. Also, girls advocate for equality at all levels of men and women and for gender freedom.
Feminists from Pussy Riot support those who protest against the rigging of the 2011 elections, advocate the resignation of the President of the Russian Federation - Vladimir Putin, who is considered an adherent of patriarchal views.
The first composition of the Pussy Riot group was "Free the paving stones", dedicated to the elections to the State Duma on December 4, 2011 (the song was performed at different metro stations). Action # 2 was the song "Kropotkin-vodka", which was performed in trendy bars and shops, it was also timed to coincide with the aforementioned elections. The composition "Death to Prison, Freedom to Protest" was performed on the roof of a special detention center in Moscow, in support of the protesters against falsification of the election results; "Putin pissed off" - on Red Square in January 2012.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova was also a participant in the performance of 2008, when a group of young people had sex in the zoological museum, in full view of a crowd of visitors next to a stuffed bear. The ideological slogan that accompanied this action sounded something like this: "The people have power and the people like it."
Currently, three arrested participants in a punk prayer service in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior - Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Yekaterina Samutsevich and Maria Alekhina await a court verdict, which will be announced on August 17.
