There will be millions of views

Petersburg Police has ensured popularity not yet removed by the Pussy Riot clip

“It looks like a well-planned PR action, taking into account the fact that now this raid on the set has become a good information farm,” the author of the Rave Rave Russian Kids telegram channel commented on the scandals around the Pussy Riot. It was really difficult to believe in the reality of what was happening-law enforcement officers seemed to do everything so that the future clip of punk groups had millions of views. Nevertheless, the police confirmed the “new”: the audit was, no violations were identified. “Unfortunately,” the Ministry of Internal Affairs specified.

Filming of the clip for the song "Embroists" began in the Lenfilm film studio in the morning on Sunday, February 9. Famous LGBT-activists Boris Konakov, Nixel-Pixel and Lely Nordik took part in them. Around noon, police officers interrupted. In the video from the scene, the police officer voices the reason for the visit of the security forces: “Propaganda of LGBT communities or inciting hatred. Extremist activity is not allowed. ” According to Fontanka, St. Petersburg police decided to appear for shooting at the request of their Moscow colleagues.

Activist Nixel-Pixel told Instagram that everything developed in growing: “It's funny how everything escalated with“ oh, only one cop came, and he is normal ”to a crowd of cops and eshniks, disconnection of electricity throughout the Lenfilm.” Problems with the light in the entire film studio began about 40 minutes after the police visit, said Pussy Riot, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova. The girls specified that the entrances to the Lenfilm were blocked so that the electric generator could not drive.

The acting director of Lenfilm Inessa Yurchenko in the comments of the media denied the custom nature of the power outage. According to her, a crowd of police on video recordings from a film studio is a massive mass. Lenfilm money already paid for the rental of the pavilion, due to interruptions in electricity, plans to return.

Yurchenko’s statement in a conversation with the “New” was denied by the press secretary of the St. Petersburg head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vyacheslav Stepchenko, answering questions from the correspondent with a text, which, according to him, was agreed with the leadership: “As reported in the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, not recorded at the indicated address of public violations.” “Unfortunately,” Stepchenko added from himself. From this it follows that

The police were present at Lenfilm, but in what quantities and quality, the spokeswoman did not specify.

According to Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, the new single and the clip are devoted to how it hurts to be an enemy of the state in his own country, in his only homeland. According to its estimates, 15 thousand dollars took the organization of Sunday filming: this is the rental of not only premises, but also expensive equipment.

Hope published a short fragment of the clip on Instagram, which they managed to write down with the words: “Enrages, infuriates, infuriates, infuriates. We begin to cook. " “We would calmly shoot the clip and went home-maybe no one would have noticed,” says Boris Konakov, a press secretary of the crisis center for women, who participated in the filming. “And now there will be millions of views at the clip.”

After the failed filming, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova announced on Instagram to raise money for a new clip. She raised 66 thousand rubles per day.

The next day, the communication of the punk group with the St. Petersburg police continued.

On Monday, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs detained Tolokonnikov and another 12 people who participated in a photo shoot. True, not at Lenfilm, but in another rented room. The reason for the detention, according to Tolokonnikova, was not voiced, and a whole motorcade of cars with flashing lights was adjusted to the house - so that everyone was fitting.

After three hours spent in the 16th police department, everyone was released without drawing up protocols. According to the Agora lawyer group, the photo shoot participants were detained on the basis of "reporting a fire and screams for help." “Probably, the purpose of the detention is the breakdown of the filming,” the lawyers say.