Oh, just so you know, this has absolutely nothing to do with anything Pussy Riot stands for, except for the blatant hijacking of their signature balaclavas and the “Free Pussy Riot” song Peaches wrote for Pussy Riot. Every possible explanation that lingerie brand’s ad department is seeding into the YouTube comments by dropping the FreePussyRiot.org […]
After the public trial and imprisonment of Pussy Riot, two of the activists are currently serving two years in some of the most dangerous and notoriously decrepit prison work camps in Russia… for 40 seconds of dancing in a church. According to activist Nadezhda Tolokonnikova’s husband Peter Verzilov, Tolokonnikova spends eight hours a day sewing these outfits. Things weren’t exactly cool […]
So, it’s March 8th, International Women’s Day. Russian immigrants give their moms’ a call. Most former Soviet Socialist Republics celebrate similarly. Others, around the world, protest glaring inequalities and abuse. It’s only appropriate that in the neu-repressive Russia, dozens of protestors were plucked from several demonstrations around the city and arrested for “administrative misdemeanours for […]
Balaclavas are the shit right now. From imprisoned Russian Pussy Riot activists to the catwalk to Spring Breakers and now, to this new music video for Diplo’s “Butter’s Theme” (ft. Gent & Jawns) directed by Reuben Dangoor. But mostly, from the imprisoned Russian Pussy Riot activists. Hey, I wouldn’t push the Pussy Riot connection if that commendable butt up there wasn’t decorated with […]
Recently, French actor Gérard Depardieu publicly denounced France’s rich-people tax increase proposal and accepted Russian citizenship — with much pomp and opulent pandering from the Russian press. He is also Putin’s BFF now. They’re like, hanging out and calling each other “friends” on TV and stuff. And so, Depardieu was asked how he can be such a […]
Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers has a release date — March 22nd, da-da-dum. It also has this neat new poster as seen on the Vulture. Did you forget what it is? Did you forget that a shirtless James Franco will blast “Britney Spears’ ‘Everytime’ on a white piano at the beach as the girls dance around him […]
This is the new Pussy Riot for “Putin Will Teach You How to Love the Motherland,” starting with delicate music and some waves, until the bright balaclavas emerge triumphantly out of the water and hell breaks loose all over the Olympic International Committee’s fantasy of non-involvement. Though the IOC’s Mark Adam said “what happened wasn’t in the context […]
In Moscow, eight members of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster were detained for holding an illegal rally. While the world the internet is familiar with the Pastafarian movement as a parody religion against the literal interpretation of scripture — magical Jesus, Flying Spaghetti Monster, etc. — in Russia, shit gets realer. The Church of FSP […]
A few weeks back, ANIMAL received an email from an account belonging to 5WPR’s semi-insane CEO Ronn Torossian. The subject read: “The DJ of The Kremlin Visiting NY – Plays for Putin, Medeved, Prokhorov & others… Interested in interviewing the DJ to the Oligarchs?” We replied yes, because why not? One of Torossian’s underlings responded […]
Two Russian performance artists were arrested for symbolically exorcising the demons of Russian history at Lenin’s mausoleum in Red Square on Monday. The men, Oleg Basov and Yevgeny Avilov, carried large bottles of water with black crosses painted on them and proceeded to splash the tomb with “holy water” and shouted “Rise up and leave!” They […]
