'We don’t like this kind of chess.'<blockquote>'Pussy Riot officially formed in autumn 2011 when it played its first gig in Otradnoye metro, performing the song “Clear Up the Pavement” (Osvobodi Bruschatku). Complete with footage from performances at other metro stations as well as on bus roofs and trolleybuses, the video was released on Nov. 7, the anniversary of the 1917 Russian Revolution.
According to the group, one of the events that led them to form Pussy Riot was Putin and Medvedev’s announcement made to the United Russia party congress on Sept. 25 that they would change posts in the upcoming presidential elections due on March 4. The move has been compared to castling in chess, when a rook and a king swap places. “We don’t like this kind of chess,” Pussy Riot said.
Since then, Pussy Riot has held unsanctioned performances in boutiques and at a fashion show as well as on the roof of a garage next to the detention center where the imprisoned participants of anti-fraud rallies were held. They unveiled a banner, lit flares and performed a song called “Death to Prison, Freedom to Protest” and escaped without being arrested.
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..Russian society lacks tolerance and lenience.
“We are concerned about the centralization of political life and all the problems that stem from it. It’s obvious that a single center can’t take the specifics of every region into consideration, that’s why it’s important to develop regional self-governance.
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..We are concerned about widespread sexist thinking, which reduces the diversity of people’s lives to sexual roles.”
According to the group, it would like to influence the cultural situation that forms public consciousness.
“We alter the approach to specific particular subjects such as LGBT, feminism and civic protest activity,” Pussy Riot said.
“Our motivation is ethical; we see that entire strata of population find themselves under unjustified discriminatory pressure. For instance, conservativeness dictates a definite role for a woman, which is guaranteed by social mechanisms of encouragement and punishment. This role doesn’t allow her to fulfill herself in another, alternative way that doesn’t correspond to the ideals of classic femininity.” '
- The St. Petersburg Times,
Female Furry, February 1, 2012</blockquote>
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´..end .. human rights violations [for] once and for all.´</blockquote>