In Sochi, Russia today.
Cossack militia members, an auxiliary police force in the region, attacked the Pussy Riot members with whips and removed their now-trademark balaclava masks in an incident that lasted less than five minutes, the Associated Press reports.
Russian Militia Suppress Pussy Riot Performance With Whips (Mashable)
Pussy Riot has arrived @nytopinion pic.twitter.com/DTCwtculzm
— Leah Finnegan (@leahfinnegan) February 5, 2014
Pussy Riot are in New York to be interviewed by the New York Times.
Previously: Riot So
[Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, top, and with Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda’s husband Pyotr, who acted as interperter]
Two members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, gave their first European interview on the RTÉ’s Saturday Night Show.
It is bad enough that you pay for a TV licence on pain of being sent to prison in order that you and fellow members of the public be subjected to a news and current affairs machinery that calls for your expropriation and enslavement and glorifies the rule of money. It’s bad enough that you pay for a broadcaster whose chairman was a press secretary to the then Catholic Primate of All Ireland, a broadcaster that sounds bells of devotion to the Virgin Mary twice daily and that habitually presents a bunch of devious right wing fanatics as the representative voice of Irish Catholics, and that automatically pays out tens of thousands of euro when said fanatics take umbrage at being subjected to truthful and accurate description. What might push you over the brink, though, is Brendan O’Connor and the Saturday Night Show’s treatment of Pussy Riot…
[Pussy Riot who served two years in prison after this performance in a Moscow Cathedral]
Riot confirmed, unpredictably.
Karen Fitzpatrick writes:
This week on The Saturday Night Show, in their first ever European chat show appearance Pussy Riot members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina will join Brendan on the programme.
Nadezhda and Maria will be joined by economist Constantin Gurdgiev, a lecturer in Finance with Trinity College, Dublin and a regular contributor to debate here in Ireland.Also this week, The Saturday Night Show will host a debate on homophobia; what constitutes homophobia and who gets to define the word? (Panel details will be announced closer to transmission).
Strictly Come Dancing’s Vincent Simone & Flavia Cacace will chat ahead of their upcoming show Dance ‘Til Dawn and perform a special tango from the show.
All this, and Marty Whelan talking about his new hair transplants. It’s too much…
Amnesty International NI spread the Pussy Riot word.
Can you name all the statues?
Amnesty International Northern ireland (Facebook)
Thanks Patrick Corrigan
Pussy Malone earlier.
Meanwhile, hello you:
More pics from today’s protest here.
Thanks Will St Leger
