Pussy Riot, the feminist punk collective, announced in a video trailer that it will release a new video today dedicated “to all Russian political prisoners.”
One of its leading members, Masha Alekhina, was sentenced to two months house arrest for “violating sanitary-epidemiological norms” that could spread Covid-19 at protests on 23 January in support of the jailed opposition leader Aleksei Navalny. Navalny’s film about a luxurious palace allegedly built for President Vladimir Putin has been viewed over 100 million times since it was released on YouTube on 19 January.
State media have also accused Alekhina and another Pussy Riot activist, Lucy Shteyn, of ramming a police car.