{"id":5336,"date":"2014-02-09T10:14:56","date_gmt":"2014-02-09T17:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=5336"},"modified":"2014-03-03T10:18:31","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T17:18:31","slug":"pussy-angry-in-st-petersburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/09\/pussy-angry-in-st-petersburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Pussy Angry In St. Petersburg"},"content":{"rendered":"

from Foreign Policy<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Snow Blind<\/h1>\n

When Americans look at Russia, they see what they want to see. And that’s dangerous.<\/em><\/p>\n

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BY\u00a0CHRISTIAN CARYL<\/a><\/p>\n

Two of Russia’s most famous dissidents are visiting the United States. I speak, of course, of Nadya Tolokonnikova and Masha Alyokhina, members of the feminist conceptual art group known as Pussy Riot who were recently released from jail by President Vladimir Putin. The U.S. media have been raving. “Pussy Riot gals stun Brooklyn crowd with powerful speech,”\u00a0blared<\/a>\u00a0the\u00a0New York Post<\/i>\u00a0about the duo’s appearance at a charity concert in New York this week. “Pussy Riot stole the show from Madonna” was the\u00a0verdict<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0Time<\/i>. They put in a\u00a0bravado performance<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0The Colbert Report<\/i>\u00a0and even had the\u00a0New Yorker<\/i>\u00a0gushing<\/a>\u00a0about their presumed artistic achievements. Pretty impressive.<\/p>\n

In fact, though, there is little evidence that they have any sort of influence on Russian public opinion at all. Most Russians regard Pussy Riot with outright hostility. As one recent public opinion survey revealed, the number of Russians who view the prison sentence the two women received as either fair or too soft has actually grown in the two years since they went to jail: The figure is now 66 percent. (A reminder: Tolokonnikova and Alyokhina were convicted on charges of “hooliganism” after performing an impromptu anti-Putin concert in a Moscow cathedral in 2012.)<\/p>\n

[ click to read full article at ForeignPolicy.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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