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The Pussy Riot give a ladle. Putin's portrait burned

(BRUSSELS2) Pussy Riot's first intervention - which earned three of them a two-year labor camp sentence for hooliganism - was anti-conformist and cheerfully disruptive, but remained "nice" in the political allusion to Putin . She was simply praying to the Virgin Mary to rid them of Putin. The last intervention - which has just come out on the web - posted Thursday on the site of NME  - and intended for the MTV Musical Awards, appears much more political, a real call to revolt, violently attacking the head of the Kremlin and his henchmen. At least three young women, wearing the now famous Pussy Riots colorful balaclava, reaffirm their fight for freedom, a fight “ larger than life “, they say, while rappelling down a disused building, before burning Putin’s photo. The Russian power seems not to have finished with this group which symbolizes, at least in the West, the fight against a certain monopoly...

The Pussy Riot Proclamation for Freedom

« We fight to write, to think, to criticize they proclaim. " To musicians and artists, ready to Ready to do anything to change our country. (…) our country is dominated by an evil man”. " That man (showing a portrait of Putin) think it's illegal to call yourself a feminist or sing pop music. This man thinks it is illegal to defend the rights of gays and lesbians. This man thinks you can't criticize the government. This man who thinks that if you sing and dance inappropriately, you deserve two years in prison »

An endless fight

« Thanks to Madonna, Hot Chili Peppers, Björk, Green Day, feminists and all the musicians, activists and everyone around the world who have come together to fight for our right to be free they say before concluding: "It's time for Pussy Riot and nothing will stop them. The struggle for freedom is an endless struggle that is larger than life. »

 NB: If the video does not start, click twice on the white square (no, it has not been censored! :-). This broadcast video comes from the NME website.
Many media took over this video (RTBF, Le Monde, ...). They hastened to put advertising before to "boost" their figure!

Nicolas Gros Verheyde

Chief editor of the B2 site. Graduated in European law from the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne and listener to the 65th session of the IHEDN (Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale. Journalist since 1989, founded B2 - Bruxelles2 in 2008. EU/NATO correspondent in Brussels for Sud-Ouest (previously West-France and France-Soir).

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