Pussy Riot releases new video, ‘Like in a Red Prison’, compares Putin to an ‘ayatollah in Iran’
The four members of the Russian fem-punk band who are not in prison have released their first performance in nearly a year, in the YouTube video, “Like in a Red Prison”.
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In the song, the members of the band, dressed in tights, colorful dresses and their trademark masks, take aim at Russian President Vladimir Putin, comparing the former KGB agent to an “ayatollah in Iran”.
They also slam Putin for the recent anti-gay legislation he signed into law.
The band performs on an oil derrick and at one point, even pour oil over a portrait of Rosneft chief, Igor Sechin.
Last fall, Pussy Riot members Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, convicted in August 2012 on charges of “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred” following a performance critical of president Vladimir Putin, were moved to remote prison camps within the country.
They were arrested in March 2012 staging an anti-Putin performance in Moscow’s Christ the Saviour Cathedral in February.
