Pussy Riot Member Has No Regrets
One year after the band Pussy Riot staged an anti-President Vladimir Putin stunt in Moscow’s main cathedral that landed them in jail, a released band member said Thursday that she has no regrets. Yekaterina Samutsevich told the Associated Press that she is glad that their punk performance made Russians more aware of the Orthodox Church’s close ties with the Russian government. “I have no regrets about the performance,†she said in an interview outside Christ the Savior Cathedral. “Many people who did not know about the problem became aware of it: the problem in our society, in the Russian Church.†Samutsevich, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina staged the impromptu punk performance at the cathedral on Feb. 21, 2012, pleading with the Virgin Mary to “drive Putin away†from Russia.
