Who is afraid of the Pussy Riot?

They are the most famous female collective in the world: Russian feminists and activists, Pussy Riot have staged some of the most memorable performances of our times. Now two of its members are coming to Athens to present their work and discuss with Dimitris Papanikolaou and the public at the OCC: the journalist Sasha Bogino and the poet Masha Alyokhina.

Masha Alyokhina, a founder member of Pussy Riot, has since set up Zona Prava, an organization which provides support to prisoners in Russian jails. Her interest in the conditions in which prisoners are kept in Russia was spurred by the months she herself spent in prison after her conviction for hooliganism in 2012—the hooliganism in question being Pussy Riot’s performance in Moscow cathedral. Entitled Punk Prayer, it condemned the Russian Orthodox Church’s support for Vladimir Putin.

Sasha Bogino, who recently joined Pussy Riot, is a key person connected with Zona Prava organization, which was founded by Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina of Pussy Riot and currently provides legal and informational support to Russian prisoners and criminal defendants.

 
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Curated by: Afroditi Panagiotakou, Pasqua Vorgia
In conversation with Dimitris Papanikolaou, Associate Professor of Modern Greek Studies, University of Oxford

Our heartfelt thanks to Katerina Oikonomakou for her contribution.

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