Pussy Riot are scapegoats for Russia's political crisis | Natalia Antonova

Their 'punk prayer service' offended my religious sensibilities, but Pussy Riot's treatment by Orthodox Christians is horrifyingThere is something oddly Shakespearian about the story of Pussy Riot, the Russian feminist punk-rock collective staging impromptu events in balaclavas. It recalls the narrative of King Lear's Fool – the laughter dying, the farce drawing to a mysterious, possibly violent close. It likewise recalls the story of the Jester in Andrei Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev, a shimmerin...

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