Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi
Three young Russian female punk musicians, members of a Russian feminist punk-rock collective the Pussy Riot, were arrested March 6 after a performance on the altar of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior of the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow, February 21, 2012. Two weeks before March’s presidential vote, in which they asked Mother Mary to deliver Russia from Putin’s third presidential term. Maria Alyokhina (24), Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (23) and Yekaterina Samutsevich (29) performed a punk public prayer and an anti-Putin song “The Virgin, Putin banish.” They are accused by the authorities of “hooliganism.” The three women were totally aware of their action and knew that public protests carried serious risks in Russia.
The lyrics (taken from the video below)
The virgin, Devo, Putin banish
Putin banish, Putin banish
