Moving Pictures: “Putin Lights Up Fires” by Pussy Riot
This video, this song, "Putin Lights Up Fires," does not exists without context. By now, most are familiar with the story of the Russian punk rock collective, Pussy Riot, and how in the eyes of the Russian church and Russian government, they took their performance art too far when they staged a punk prayer in an orthodox cathedral. Blasphemous, indecent, said the authorities. Three members were tried, in one sham of a trial, and found guilty of hooliganism. Their sentence is two years. It was deemed lenient. To understand how Pussy Riot has [...]





















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