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January 9, 2014 Marina Galperina

Since Pussy Riot’s Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina were forcefully released from the prison camps, they have been busy. There have been television interviews, family dinners, photo shoots… Serving two years for a few seconds of dancing in church to an anti-Putin protest song, Pussy Riot denounced the early release Putin extended to them as a “disgusting” “cynical” […]

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June 6, 2013 Kyle Chayka

Well-known Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei just did the cover art for this month’s issue of TIME magazine. While the cover bears many visual similarities to the Chinese propaganda posters of yesteryear it remains quite timid in comparison to some of the artist’s more recent works. It’s also clean and simple, and okay. Ai Weiwei as persecuted […]

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