Pussy Riot member Rita Flores was arrested “for no damn reason”, she says
A Moscow court ruled on Monday that Rita Flores, a Pussy Riot member who was diagnosed with Covid-19 while serving one of a string of recent jail sentences in Moscow against members of the feminist political protest collective, will have to return to prison after being released from hospital.
The judge ruled that Flores’s sentence is suspended for her hospitalisation, but she will have to serve another five days and 21 hours, her lawyer told the official Tass news agency. Flores (a pseudonym for Margarita Konovalova), was jailed on 22 July for disobeying a police officer, a day after being detained while on her way to visit Pussy Riot’s Masha Alekhina, who was in a detention centre serving the second of consecutive 15-day sentences.
A still from Pussy Riot s video Terrestrial Paradise, which sold as an NFT-backed work for around £128,000 Courtesy of Pussy Riot
The Russian performance art punk music group Pussy Riot have minted and sold their first NFT (non-fungible token), generating 100 ETH (£128,000) in an auction on 14 March via the platform Foundation.
The NFT is for the official music video for their latest single Panic Attack, directed by Asad Malik and filmed on 106 cameras as an immersive augmented reality experience.
The video, titled Terrestrial Paradise, first depicts a utopian, kawaii world before moving into darker realms. It features a hologram of the Pussy Riot founding member Nadya Tolokonnikova, who eventually ends up in a digital wasteland alongside several of her slaughtered clones.
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A police officer escorts Lucy Shteyn to court from house arrest at her home in Moscow, Russia on Feb. 15, 2021. (Courtesy of Lucy Shteyn/ via JTA)
JTA Lucy Shteyn is only 24 years old, but she already has firsthand knowledge of what awaits vocal critics of President Vladimir Putin in her native Russia.
In 2018, a year after Shteyn, a Jewish gay rights activist and a prominent opposition activist, was elected to Moscow’s city council, hackers got into her cellphone and computer. They released many of her personal pictures and correspondence online.
One of the pictures was of a well-known film critic, who is married, sleeping in her bed. Moskovskaya Gazeta, a tabloid that ran the pictures, labeled Shteyn “a hunter of married men” living a life full of “drugs and techno.” On ultranationalist forums, anonymous users called her a “Jewish whore” and posted pictures of Auschwitz with her name as a hashtag.
(JTA) — Lucy Shteyn is only 24 years old, but she already has firsthand knowledge of what awaits vocal critics of President Vladimir Putin in her native Russia.