Art
CINCINNATI — The trending wardrobe of choice for aspiring female protest artists consists of Day-Glo leotards and matching ski masks. Credit the young punk rock performers known as Pussy Riot, feminist activists who led late 2011 civilian protests in Moscow following Vladimir Putin’s controversial r
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Pussy Riot member Maria Alekhina has ended her hunger strike 11 days after it began, and a Moscow court has rejected the group's appeal, ruling that their jail terms were appropriate and the case was not political.
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A member of the punk feminist group Pussy Riot, Maria Alekhina, has declared a hunger strike after a Russian judge refused to allow her to personally attend a court hearing about her possible parole
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Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova was denied early release from prison last Friday, with a Russian judge saying that Tolokonnikova had "not always followed the rules of behavior" in custody, according to the AP.
Performance
Cyberfest, the first and only yearly festival of international media art in Russia, was founded in 2007 by artists and curators Anna Frants and Marina Koldobskaya. Since that time they have brought hundreds of international media artists to St. Petersburg, and in the process raising its internationa
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A Moscow court has ruled that four videos by punk-art-protest band Pussy Riot are "extremist," and websites hosting the videos must remove them or pay fines.
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Fears have been circulating for a while that two members of protest punk band Pussy Riot could face extremely harsh, possibly life-threatening conditions in the prisons where they're serving their two-year sentences, and those fears now appear to be confirmed.
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Yekaterina Samutsevich, the oldest member of the Russian art-punk band Pussy Riot, was released from prison today, though the other two younger members remain behind bars.
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It looks like pressure from directors, actors, and high-profile members of the film community around the world has worked: Syrian filmmaker Orwa Nyrabia, who went missing a few weeks ago, has been freed.
Books
The City University of New York’s Feminist Press has announced that they will publish an e-book on the Russian punk protest band and performance art troupe Pussy Riot entitled “Pussy Riot! A Punk Prayer for Freedom.”
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The Pussy Riot sentencing has come and gone, but there's still plenty happening in Russia as the country deals with the aftermath of the highly publicized, highly political trial that focused international attention — most of it disapproval and outrage — on the Putin government.
Opinion
The Twitterverse is full of opinions and here is just some of the most notable 140 characters or less commentary that appeared on our screens.