29/11/2025
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P***y Riot is about to be officially labeled an extremist organization in Russia.
When we were in that church basement in Moscow dreaming up P***y Riot, K. and I imagined P***y Riot growing into a movement. Fourteen years later, the Prosecutor General’s Office is demanding that we be declared an extremist organization.
If on December 15 the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow grants the Prosecutor General’s request, we’ll be officially placed in the same category as the Azov, LGBT, the Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People and Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation.
I’m laughing in disbelief.
But at the same time I want to remind everyone that someone has to be the voice of common sense. And in this distorted world this voice now has to come from punks, artists, tricksters, holy fools.
Singing in the streets is not extremism. Doing street actions is not extremism.
Extremism is invading other countries and committing war crimes. Being anti-fascist and wearing a Pikachu costume… is not extremism.
P***y Riot have always stood - and will continue to stand - with Saint Nikolai, who wasn’t afraid to throw a piece of raw meat at the feet of Ivan the Terrible himself, calling him out: “You eat human flesh and blood.”
And if telling the truth is “extreme,” then hold my Red Bull.
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