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The punk collective Pussy Riot faces internal crisis as a member confesses to being an FSB informant, while two others remain imprisoned and a founder reflects on the betrayal.
Their opposition to Putin led to two of the group being sent to brutal prison camps. Then another was found to be spying for the Kremlin.
Shaun Walker reportsare filming a video in Red Square, Moscow. As snow covers the cobbles and dusts the onion globes of St Basil’s Cathedral, the clock on the Kremlin chimes 11am. Eight women in colourful balaclavas leap on to a stone platform, one with an electric guitar. They start playing their latest song, Putin Has Chickened Out.
It’s pretty punchy, with lyrics such as: “The rebellious column is heading to the Kremlin / Windows are exploding in FSB offices. ” The group had formed a few months earlier after Vladimir Putin announced that he planned to return to the Kremlin for a third term as president. Inspired by the Arab spring the previous year, they hoped to bring revolution toand stop Putin. Instead, the state cracked down hard.
Three Pussy Riot members were found guilty of hooliganism after later protests, with two spending two years in some of Russia’s harshest jails. Then, in August this year, another video featuring a Pussy Riot member, Rita Flores, went viral. This time, it wasn’t a punk performance. Flores had a confession.
She was an informant for the FSB, the Russian intelligence service, she said.her story. About how her handlers threatened and cajoled her into spying on the other artists in her collective and how she tried to thwart them.founder member of Pussy Riot who was jailed for her support of the group and fled the country. Alekhina tells Helen about why she does not feel angry at her former comrade in activism.
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