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Amplifier-Interview with Pussy Riot

In August 2022 Pussy Riot performed on the Teichbühne at the Mühli Hunziken and we had a chat…

26.01.2024 12 min RaBe-Amplifier

Zusammenfassung & Show Notes

On the 30. August 2022 Pussy Riot were scheduled to perform on the Teichbühne at the Mühle Hunziken in Rubigen. Controversy ensued, as they painted an «Anti-War»-graffity on a wall near the hotel they were staying in and got arrested in Bern the night before the show. 
After their powerful performance I managed to have a conversation with Mascha, one of the Pussy Riot activists, that famously spent two years in a Russian prison camp. For added context I have put the short speech she held on stage after the concert at the beginning of the podcast. 
Hear what it is like to be a policital activist in Putins Russia and what happened to the collective in Bern…