From the zone to Singapore

Pussy Riot members can receive a prize in the Hero of the Year nomination, and Vladimir Putin is nominated for the title of "villain of the year"

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina, who were released according to the amnesty of the Pussy Riot group, were engaged in their new project to the prisoners of the “zone of law”, and then went on the first foreign tour - to Singapore, where they were nominated for the Prudential Eye Awards for the Virgin, Putin of the run ”, shot in the Church of Christ The Savior, that is, for the very action for which they were convicted in Russia.


Pride Prudential Eye Awards this year is awarded for the first time. This project is jointly carried out by the British organization Parallel Contemporary Art and the world famous London art gallery Saatchi. Experts consider this project promising. The Australian Daniel Kruks was received by the best video. But all the attention of the press went to Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina. The name of the Pussy Riot group was in the headlines of the messages of international agencies about Singapore awards.

In the hot and stuffy Singapore, now you have to move around in such an eternal press conference Pic.twitter.com/gqccc8wipbzy

- Group War (@gruppa_voina) January 18, 2014

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova said that the Russian authorities should also be nominated for the fact that, having put the participants in the punk in prison, they made their campaign to the whole world. "This is a reward not only to us, but also by the political system that is now in Russia."

The old Russian religious art and modern punk art are faced in the clip of Pussy Riot

According to the New York director of Glory Tsuckerman , the Pussy Riot video, which was nominated in the "Digital Video" category, is fully consistent with all the standards of video art and earned nominations.

- The fact is that those qualities that are evaluated by this form of art are not at all in either the brightness of the clip, or as an image, or as music, but consist in a clash of various stylistic elements and, as a result, which this collision produces. In the video, Pussy Riot is faced with old Russian religious art and modern punk art. They pushed them quite skillfully. Well, the result exceeded all expectations.

Before leaving for Singapore, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina recorded a video message calling to come to the anti -fascist procession in memory of the lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova, killed by the Nazis in Moscow.


A little earlier, Nadezhda Toloconnikova and Maria Alekhina, as part of the “Zone Law” project, which they founded to help prisoners, went to Nizhny Novgorod, to the colony, where Alekhin’s punishment recently served. According to the results of the trip to IK-2, 10 complaints were drawn up to the prosecutor's office for supervision of compliance with the rule of law in the prison system, the GUFSIN of Russia in the Nizhny Novgorod Region. Applications have been submitted to the Investigative Committee. Complaints are being prepared for labor conditions in IK-2. Romanian videoographer Maurice Rushten accompanied the girls and made a film about their trip:



This week it became known that the Pussy Riot group also claims to be musical awards in the UK. We are talking about the awards of the authoritative music magazine NME (New Musical Express) . Pussy Riot are nominated in two categories at once - "Hero of the Year" and "Musical Event of the Year." Among other applicants in the first nomination, stars such as David Bowie, the late Lu Read, Russell Brand, Alex Tarner from the Arctic Monkeys group and one of the participants in the American Ham Group Este Haim.

The glory of Zuckerman does not surprise that Pussy Riot fell into such a company.

- There is a very sharp discrepancy in how it is perceived here, and how it is perceived in Russia. The side that causes the greatest passions in Russia, that is, an insult to religious feelings, is not perceived here at all. People do not see this, today it is the norm of world art, not offending anyone and not touching anyone.

Nominated for the NME magazine and the person from whom to save Russia in his punk-summer asked the Virgin Mary of Pussy Riot. Russian President Vladimir Putin - among the applicants for victory in the category of "villain of the year". Together with him, British Prime Minister David Cameron and representatives of show business Miley Cyrus, Russell Brand, Harry Stayls and Robin Tick were nominated. The awards will be presented in London on February 26.