Five members of the band Pussy Riot – wearing brightly colored homemade ski masks and miniskirts – briefly seized the pulpit of Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral in late February to chant “Mother Mary, drive Putin away.” Moscow City Court spokeswoman Anna Usacheva said that Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova will remain in custody until a hearing in April.
Attorneys for the band said the two women should be released because they have young children. The women have declared a hunger strike to protest their continued detention.
“You shouldn’t bring such behavior into a church,” said Orthodox activist Nikita Slepnev. “We don’t need dancing prostitutes in our churches.”
Dancing prostitutes in church is another great name for a band. Punk is supposed to be political, the US has no cred this is real punk rock behaviour. Granted not the brightest when you live in Russia but its also a sign that punks not dead at all.
As Alyson Camus reported in February, Pussy Riot first gained world notice when their impromptu concert in Red Square and became internet sensations. Not unlike Justin Beiber…