Pussy Riot: It took a bunch of bright, sassy women in colourful balaclavas to blow the lid off Putin's Russia

What Pussy Riot have done is show up the machinery of the state for what it is: scary, violent, punitive and maleThere aren't many revolutions that have been started by wearing colourful dresses and playing loud music, but Pussy Riot are not most revolutionaries.For a start, they're women. Or devushki, as the Russians call them – "girls". And for seconds, they're not hardened activists or Machiavellian politicos; they're just a bunch of highly-educated, articulate young women who possess perha...

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