The failure of Pussy Riot

Journalism , Russia Dec 30, 2013 No Comments

When Pussy Riot members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina were released from their respective penal colonies last week, as part of Vladimir Putin’s conveniently-timed amnesty for more than 20,000 non-violent offenders, practically the first thing they did was call for a Western boycott of the Sochi Winter Olympics. “This is not an amnesty,” Alyokhina said. “This is a hoax and a PR move.”

It was wonderful to see the pair outside the medieval cages in which they were forced to sit during their trial for hooliganism last year—from behind balaclavas to behind bars, as it were—let alone to see them outside of the confinement cells they were forced to call home for the past twenty-one months.
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But for those of us who remember the failure of the anti-Putin opposition groups to expand their base in the wake of last year’s presidential election—the moment, in the words of Hunter S. Thompson, when the wave finally broke and rolled back—there was something exasperatingly familiar about the tone, timbre and target of their comments.

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Matthew Clayfield

Matthew Clayfield is a journalist, critic and screenwriter.

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