Several members of Pussy Riot, including Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, are currently knocking around Sochi. But according to reports, when they most recently tried to stage a protest action they were surrounded and shut down by Cossacks.
Days after Pussy Riot's Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova walked out of a Russian prison, the pair held a press conference detailing their next moves.
Today, as we race toward the Olympics, Pussy Riot's Maria Alyokhina says jail in Russia means weeks of forced, daily gynecological exams.
A few months before they were scheduled to be released from prison, Pussy Riot members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina will likely walk free due to the passage of a Russian amnesty bill.
After her family reported that she was missing and they had no idea where she had gone, jailed Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova turned up in a penal camp in Siberia, which seemed like a bad omen. But on Wednesday night's Al Jazeera program Consider This, host Antonio Mora spoke with her husband Pyotr Verzilov,…
Jailed Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova — who is currently serving the last few months of her two-year sentence for her participation in an anti-Putin performance — is being sent to a prison colony in the depths of Siberia, according to her relatives and lawyers. Last week her family reported that they hadn't…
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova—a member of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot who's been jailed since March 2012—is starting her own NGO to fight for prison reform in the Mordovia region where she's currently being held.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, one of the jailed members of feminist punk band Pussy Riot, has written a lengthy open letter about her experience within a Russian prison colony with appalling conditions that seem to echo the Soviet Gulag system.
We recently spoke with Pussy Riot's Yekaterina “Katia” Samutsevich about her philosophical influences, sexism in activism, and the meaning behind the punk feminist collective's purposefully shocking name. Here are some highlights, culled from the questions you asked. (Side note: her Skype name is a play on "ass to…
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, one of the members of the anti-Putinist Pussy Riot feminist punk band who were convicted of "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred" for a performance in Moscow's main cathedral, was hospitalized last week after complaining about headaches and being overworked at the prison camp she's been…
