Pussy Riot Is
No Longer a Band
BY KAT
STOEFFEL
The two
released but unrepentant members of Pussy Riot said in a press conference today
that the Russian punk-protest band is breaking up.
“We are not
Pussy Riot now,” Nadya Tolokonnikova said.
“We can
promote our cause without playing any shows,” Maria Alyokhina added. “And we
will never play any shows for money.”
Tolokonnikova
and Alyokhina will continue to work together, forming a crowd-funded prisoners'
rights organization with activist Alexsei Navalny on the board, according to
the Hollywood Reporter. The women were serving two-year sentences (in
horrifying conditions) for their anti-Putin performance in a Moscow cathedral
but were released this week under a new amnesty bill, which they have dismissed
as a pre-Olympics PR campaign.
Tolokonnikova
and Alyokhina will limit their artistic activities to inmates because Russia's
prisons are so bad that they require a “cultural revolution,” they said, and
probably because when you call yourself a band you’re stuck doing interviews
like this one with opposition "It" girl Ksenia Sobchak. Sobchak asked
if Tolokonnikova, as the prettiest Pussy Riot member, was the Beyoncé of the
group, bound to go solo, and, if so, was that sexist? Eye-roll gifs
aplenty at Buzzfeed.
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