definition for: #pussyriot

Pussy Riot is a Russian feminist punk-rock band based in Moscow. Founded in August 2011, the band stages politically provocative performances about Russian political life in unusual locations, such as Lobnoye Mesto on Red Square, on top of a trolleybus or on a scaffold in the Moscow Metro. [Source:http://***]

Pussy Riot is a Russian feminist punk-rock group based in Moscow founded in August 2011. On February 21, 2012, five members of the group staged a 30-second performance on the soleas of Moscow?s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, in which they invoked the Virgin Mary to rid Russia of Putin and threw insults at Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Moscow Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church.Their actions were stopped by church security officials. On March 3, 2012 after a video of the performance appeared online, three of the group members were arrested and charged with hooliganism.