From Pussy Riot, a lesson in the power of punk | John Harris

Putin may have more serious critics, but Pussy Riot have shown the west how artistic dissent can still make a differenceThe heritage of protest and provocation on which Nadezhda Tolokonnikova was drawing was confirmed as soon as I saw her picture. The hair cut into a functional bob, the "No Pasaran" T‑shirt with the clenched-fist logo, her leading place in a band-cum-collective called Pussy Riot – it was as if she had been plucked from the Anglo-American subculture known as riot grrrl circa ...

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