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Pussy Versus Putin

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  • Music

August 30, 2013 (US)

1h 0m

Shocking and visceral profile of Pussy Riot and their protests.

In 2012 two members of anarchistic female band Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years in a Mordovian labor camp for "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred". Russian film collective Gogol’s Wives follow each step of the feminist punk band’s battle against Putin including their...

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