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Pussy Riot share new protest song & video (watch)

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Pussy Riot, who were in NYC earlier this month for Vice’s big 20-years to-do, have just released a video for “Witches of Pussy Riot Clean Manezhka.” You can watch it below. The song was released in conjunction with a massive protest that happened tonight in Moscow’s Manezhka Square, about very recently imprisoned opposition activists Alexei and Oleg Navalny:

The Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was arrested on Tuesday after breaking house arrest to join an opposition rally in Moscow, hours after a court gave him a suspended sentence for fraud. His brother, Oleg, was jailed for three and a half years for the same offence.

Police arrested Navalny soon after he emerged from the metro. Officers detained him outside the Ritz Carlton hotel, in Tverskaya street, before he had a chance to join demonstrators trying to reach the heavily guarded Manezh square, directly in front of the Kremlin.

Thousands of protesters gathered in freezing conditions to protest against the verdict on Navalny and his brother. They chanted anti-Putin slogans including: “No Putin, no war”, “Crimea is not ours”, “Putin is a thief” and “freedom”. More than 100 protesters were arrested, including a Wall Street Journal reporter, and loaded into waiting buses, to cries of “shame!”. – [The Guardian]

Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova were released from Russian Prison almost a year ago. While they were, apparently, out of the collective for a while, they are both part of it again and are in the new video which you can watch below.

“Witches of Pussy Riot Clean Manezhka”

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