Criticism to the regime: five pussy riot condemned in Russia

Five components of the Pussy Riot were condemned in default to penalties between 8 and 13 years of imprisonment in Russia. According to what reported by Mediazona, a site co-founded by the feminist punk collective, Maria Alyokhina, Diana Burkot, Taso Pletner, Olga Borisova and Alina Petrova did not show up in Moscow at the trial, which saw the 2022 video at the center “Mama, Don’t Watch TV” and their performance in Munich.

The Moscow District Court of Moscow sentenced Maria Alyokhina (13 years and 15 days of criminal colony), Taso Pletner (11 years old), Diana Burkot, Olga Borisova and Alina Petrova (8 years) for the music video From three years ago in which, according to the Russian authorities, they would have spread “false information” on the killing of Ukrainian civilians by the Russian army. At the concert in Germany, however, Pletner He urinated on a photo of Vladimir Putin At Pinakothek der Moderne.

Through the legal representatives, the Pussy Riot rejected the accusations, claiming to be faced with one political sentence. “The war on a large scale against Ukraine has been going on for more than three years. I continue to believe that Ukraine must win and that Putin must face the court of the Hague” said Burkot, author of the video. “The Russian government is an example of a manual of Patriarchate, which perpetrates the worst forms of abuse: a tyrant, a narcissist, a Gaslighter, a toxic manipulator who feeds on the destruction of the other will”.

Pletner instead cited through his lawyer the dissident writer who survived the Gulag Andrej Sinjavskij: “Until a writer is declared guilty, he cannot say herself affirmed. The literature that does not exceed the borders stagnates in the enclosure that has been assigned to her, like a child who reels in a puddle of water. So far I have considered myself innocent and therefore an artist. Otherwise, how can a candidate prevent the assignment of the prize?

The conflict between the Pussy Riot and the Russian authorities originated in 2012, when the collective acquired fame with the protest “A Punk Prayer“, in response to the accusations of electoral fraud and fraud in the re -election of Putin. Alyokhina and Nadya Tolokonnikova were arrested, although then released early thanks to an amnesty approved just before Russia hosted the 2014 Winter Olympic Games.