"Odds are you've heard of Pussy Riot. They're an anonymous feminist punk band with openly anti-Putin lyrics who refuse to play in normal venues and seek to bring down the Russian government. They formed last September after Putin announced he'd stand again for the presidency in March 2012 – a scary prospect for many since poverty, terror attacks, corruption and the loss of civil rights have been the hallmarks of his reign at the Kremlin. "
"What's been your favourite gig?
Garadzha: Aside from the Red Square, all of us are really fond of the act we did on the roof of one of the buildings of a Detention Center in Moscow, where people arrested after the December 5th post-election protests were held. The political detainees could see us from inside their prison cells and they chanted and cheered while we sang the "Death to Prisons – Freedom to Protest" song. Prison officers and staff were running around not knowing what to do – because they had no idea how to immediately take us off that roof. And they got so scared they immediately ordered a lockdown – they must've thought that a siege of the Detention Centre would come start after we finish singing. That was cool."
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