Anti-Putin punk group Pussy Riot headlines UK Christian music festival
Source: Religion News Service
By Rosie Dawson
(RNS) — From its shock-effect name to its defiant activist tactics, little about the Russian band Pussy Riot would suggest that the punk group is on a holy mission.
But after an appearance last weekend (Aug. 26) at Greenbelt, the U.K.’s foremost Christian arts festival, Pussy Riot’s co-founder Maria Alyokhina explained that the act, beginning with the 2012 protest that resulted in two years in a labor camp, should be understood as a “Christian gesture.”
Pussy Riot is better known in the West for its feminism and political resistance — which almost prevented Alyokhina from making her date at Greenbelt. The Russian authorities had barred her from boarding a plane earlier this month as she headed on a tour of British arts events, telling her she was forbidden to leave the country until she completed a 100-day community service sentence for taking part in an unauthorized protest in April.
Categories: Europe, Russia, The Muslim Times, UK
Haha I wonder how this will go down