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YouTube: New Video by Pussy Riot
The optical image revamp may irritate, the core message remains: Punk-Katrin hattenhauer Nadezhda Tolokonnikowa answers with a new Pussy Riot Video – as a political YouTube action.
Who masked women in colorful stockings in the wild Pogo-dance in memory of you might be surprised: Pussy Riot leader Nadezhda Tolokonnikowa bears in her new Video, which is currently the most 03.02.2016 was published, figure-hugging police uniform and red High Heels. Lascivious she gives a sort of Russian Lady Gaga. In the Text of your Rap Songs is, despite the Sexposen to the current main theme of the Russian protest movement: the corruption scandal to the Clan of the Russian General Prosecutor Yuri Chaika.
With YouTube video against Korruptionsmachenschaften
Already in December the Russian Blogger Alexei Nawalny a documentary about the machinations of the Tschajka-sons of Oleg and Igor. In the shadow of the Power of their father, the two have made huge fortunes amassed, have salt mines in Russia and luxury hotels in Greece.
His Film documentary made in the Russian Internet sensation. The characteristic “Chaika”-gesture (on chest of crossed hands, a flying bird imitation, the last name “Chaika” means “Seagull”) is since the new ID for the Protest scene. The word “Chaika” is the epitome of the corruption become. A symbolic gesture, the political activist Nadezhda Tolokonnikowa now in your current video clip picks up.
Media stars: Marija Aljochina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikowa in November 2014 in London
“Russia is not Gay-Ropa, our problems, to clarify, we are already among us”, raps Tolokonnikowa, while on the table of the public Prosecutor in front of a Putin Portrait lolling. This takes the Pussy Riot front woman of the anti-European Propaganda of the Russian media on the grain.
The Video is aware of the Aesthetics of “Russian Pop” filmed in Russia from the masses is consumed. The Youtube action is, so Tolokonnikowa, as a call to the “silent majority” to understand. The Video was already in the first 24 hours, almost a half a Million times clicked. Great enthusiasm called the Comeback of the Punk Activists, however, are not enough: “The subject is important, but the musical as pictorial quality is disappointing”, so the Tenor of many comments in the net.
Invitation to the Berlinale
You will soon come to Germany: The two human rights Activists Nadezhda Tolokonnikowa and Marija Aljochina of the kremlkritischen punk band Pussy Riot this year at the Berlinale, jury member for the Special “Cinema for Peace”. Together with the Chinese artist and filmmaker Ai Weiwei, this year the jury, you will be on a charity event for the socially most valuable movie of the year 2015 characterize.
Also the actor Daniel Brühl will be at the award ceremony. The two Pussy Riot musicians were already in 2014 at the Berlinale invited to Berlin. In March 2016 has Nadezhda Tolokonnikowa on the European literary festival litcologne in Cologne a very special appearance. She reads from her new book “instructions for a Revolution”, so the beziehungsreiche title.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikowa converts constantly look your best
Protest against Kremlfürsten Putin
At the beginning of 2012 was the 26-Year-old Tolokonnikowa together with two other members of Pussy Riot by the Russian police, arrested. In a Church, they had a “Punk prayer” held in the open by the Russian President Vladimir Putin criticised. Because “convicted of hooliganism” and “incitement to religious hatred” were the women to two years in a labor camp, sentenced, came however, 2013 following a pardon by Putin prematurely free.