Oliver Basciano

‘What happened in Russia can happen anywhere’: Pussy Riot interviewed

Oliver Basciano talks to Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina about ten years of Putin-baiting, her religious faith and western hypocrisy

Pussy Riot: where politics, pop culture and the angry, mad world of Russian performance art meet. Credit: Denis Sinyajov
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