{"id":4973,"date":"2022-03-08T15:38:11","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T14:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/08\/pussy-riots-nadya-tolokonnikova-you-cannot-play-nice-with-putin-he-is-insane-he-might-open-fire-on-his-own-people\/"},"modified":"2022-03-08T15:38:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T14:38:11","slug":"pussy-riots-nadya-tolokonnikova-you-cannot-play-nice-with-putin-he-is-insane-he-might-open-fire-on-his-own-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/08\/pussy-riots-nadya-tolokonnikova-you-cannot-play-nice-with-putin-he-is-insane-he-might-open-fire-on-his-own-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Pussy Riot\u2019s Nadya Tolokonnikova: \u2018You cannot play nice with Putin. He is insane. He might open fire on his own people\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Russian artist \u2013 who spent two years in a Siberian jail for singing an anti-Putin \u2018punk prayer\u2019 \u2013 is using NFTs to fight the dictator, raising $7m in five days. At a time like this, she says, only activism will keep you sane<\/p>\n

Nadya Tolokonnikova is in a geographically undisclosed location, speaking to me by Zoom, in a Pussy Riot T-shirt, looking purposeful, driven and singleminded. Her feminist protest art has been deadly serious since its inception, when she founded Pussy Riot in 2011. The watching world may have been entertained by its playful notes, the guerrilla gigs in unauthorised places, culminating in the event for which she was prosecuted, in Moscow\u2019s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, when she sang Punk Prayer: Mother of God, Drive Putin Away.<\/a><\/p>\n

But the consequences have always been seismic and severe. Tolokonnikova, along with two other members of Pussy Riot, were sentenced to two years in prison for hooliganism in 2012, separated from their very young children, went on hunger strike, endured unimaginably harsh conditions and were named prisoners of conscience by Amnesty International.<\/p>\n

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\nThe Russian artist \u2013 who spent two years in a Siberian jail for singing an anti-Putin \u2018punk prayer\u2019 \u2013 is using NFTs to fight the dictator, raising $7m in five days. At a time like this, she says, only activism will keep you sane
\nNadya Tolokonnikova is in a geographically undisclosed location, speaking to me by Zoom, in a Pussy Riot T-shirt, looking purposeful, driven and singleminded. Her feminist protest art has been deadly serious since its inception, when she founded Pussy Riot in 2011. The watching world may have been entertained by its playful notes, the guerrilla gigs in unauthorised places, culminating in the event for which she was prosecuted, in Moscow\u2019s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, when she sang Punk Prayer: Mother of God, Drive Putin Away.
\nBut the consequences have always been seismic and severe. Tolokonnikova, along with two other members of Pussy Riot, were sentenced to two years in prison for hooliganism in 2012, separated from their very young children, went on hunger strike, endured unimaginably harsh conditions and were named prisoners of conscience by Amnesty International. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Russian artist \u2013 who spent two years in a Siberian jail for singing an anti-Putin \u2018punk prayer\u2019 \u2013 is using NFTs to fight the dictator, raising $7m in five days. At a time like this, she says, only activism will keep you sane Nadya Tolokonnikova is in a geographically undisclosed location, speaking to me …<\/p>\n

Pussy Riot\u2019s Nadya Tolokonnikova: \u2018You cannot play nice with Putin. He is insane. He might open fire on his own people\u2019<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4973"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}