"Lennon-oho" for Pussy Riot

The widow of John Lennon Yoko, it awarded the Lennon-ONo Award in the amount of $ 50 thousand Russian punk group Pussy Riot. The award ceremony, which was attended by the husband of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Peter Verzilov, took place in New York on Friday, September 21. Yoko, it not only thanked the members of the Pussy Riot group for “that they tried to make freedom of speech the property of all women,” but also demanded their immediate liberation. In addition to Pussy Riot, three Americans received the prize: journalists Rachel Corri (died in 2003 in the Gaza Strip) and Christopher Hitchens (died in 2011), as well as economist John Perkins, the author of numerous books on the economic exploitation of third world countries.