After being detained multiple times in Sochi, Russia, the members of punk band Pussy Riot have finally been able to hold a news conference and release their music video for the song, “Putin Will Teach You How to Love the Motherland.”
Notorious band members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina served 21 months of their two-year sentence for performing a “punk prayer” in Moscow’s main cathedral, calling for the purge of President Vladimir Putin. After their early release in December, the band members said it was done as a publicity stunt to try and save face with the upcoming Olympics in Sochi.
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Both members as well as a few others were detained in connection to what officials are calling a robbery at a hotel earlier this week. Tolokonnikova denies any crime took place, saying that they were simply walking around Sochi when they were grabbed and taken into custody, Billboard reports.
The band’s original intent on being in Sochi was to perform and record the music video for “Putin Will Teach You How to Love the Motherland.” Following their release, Pussy Riot has been able to put the music video out for their new song that shows a glimpse of what the violence and police brutality really looks like in Russia. The video shows band members being whipped and beaten by Cossak police.
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The song’s lyrics are another attack against the Russian president, who has been taking human rights away from his citizens. It calls out the terrible conditions that exist for prisoners in Russia, who are often overworked and abused. The song also makes note of the violence against the LGBT community that Putin’s regime has allowed while also including the heavy amount of surveillance in connection to the Olympics.
In the video, the band performs in front of the five colored rings that represent the Olympic logo while singing, “Sochi is blocked – Olympic surveillance/Special forces, weapons, crowds of cops/FSB is an argument, the police is an argument/State TV will run your applause.”
The FSB is Russia’s Federal Security Service and has been criticized for corruption and human rights violations, the two things. Pussy Riot rebels against the most.
The video was released via YouTube on Wednesday and as of yet, none of the members have been punished for publishing it, but the full outcome may have yet to be seen.
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