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Reading the Pussy Riot act


Nadya Tolokonnikova, of female punk protest collective Pussy Riot, on the danger of UK conservatism, living in Moscow, and how the middle-class anti-Putin movement is waning.

“Moscow calling!” The Belarusian rock band Brutto tear into their adaptation of the Clash classic. A roar erupts from the audience packing out Koko, the opulent late Victorian theatre (now a club) in Camden, north London. A giant discoball reflects the 1,500-strong crowd’s red-and-white striped Belorussian revolutionary flags.

It’s the tenth anniversary of the Belarus Free Theatre, a group that has gained international support in solidarity with artists oppressed by authoritarian regimes. The gig, …read more

Source: New Statesman

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