On Wednesday, Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova and Masha Alyokhina were released from prison under a Russian amnesty law that was likely implemented in this case to show Russia in a more favourable light pre-2014 Winter Olympics.
Pussy Riot’s first post-prison interview was conducted by “Russia’s answer to Paris Hilton” — Ksenia Sobchak, who asked them all the questions you’d expect a journo to ask two political prisoners who had just served over a year in prison for performing a “punk prayer” inside a Moscow cathedral.
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Questions like these:
“You got out of prison famous and wealthy. So here’s the question: How much is the Pussy Riot brand worth?” (This was her first question)
Nadya: “I don’t understand…”
“Doesn’t it bother you that even people who support you don’t like what you did?”
Masha: “We don’t do things so people will like it, we do things to make people think, and I think we more than succeeded.”
“I can’t not ask the most important question — what’s up with your eyebrows?”
Masha: “I don’t know what you mean.”
Continued…