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Maria Alyokhina, Russian punk activist: The price of political art was prison

Maria Alyokhina, Russian punk activist: The price of political art was prison

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Vitaly Shevchenko speaks to Maria Alyokhina of the Russian punk activist group Pussy Riot

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Vitaly Shevchenko speaks to Maria Alyokhina, founding member of
the Russian punk activist group Pussy Riot, about the power and
the price of protest.

Pussy Riot came to the world’s attention with its Punk Prayer, an
angry anti-Putin anthem performed in a Moscow church. Maria
Alyokhina spent two years incarcerated in a penal colony as a
result. It was worth it, she says, to show the world what life
under President Putin was like.

She was freed under an amnesty ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics
in Sochi, but her ongoing activism saw her living under
surveillance and then house arrest, eventually fleeing Russia in
a dramatic escape. Today, she continues to challenge Putin’s
regime from outside her home country.

Thank you to the Ukrainecast team for its help in making this
programme. The Interview brings you conversations with people
shaping our world, from all over the world. The best interviews
from the BBC. You can listen on the BBC World Service on Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays at 0800 GMT. Or you can listen to The
Interview as a podcast, out three times a week on BBC Sounds or
wherever you get your podcasts.

Presenter: Vitaly Shevchenko Producer: Lucy Sheppard Editor:
Justine Lang

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(Image: Maria Alyokhina. Credit: Ina Fassbender/AFP)