Pussy Riot announce first North American tour

Feminist punk collective Pussy Riot have announced their first North American tour.

The latest reincarnation of the Russian protest group, led by Nadya Tolokonnikova, will perform a 13-date tour across the United States and Canada.

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Tolokonnikova served almost two years in prison after taking part in Pussy Riot’s infamous 2012 rendition of Virgin Mary, Mother of God, Expel Putin! in Moscow’s Christ the Saviour Cathedral.

She has since began to focus her attention on the West, releasing several English-language music videos lampooning police violence and President Donald Trump.

The tour follows the opening of Tolokonnikova’s immersive theatre experience in London, Inside Pussy Riot, which attempted to refashion the collective as a global phenonmenon.

“All my life I have been trying to do political art and my goal is to make people sympathetic to certain causes,” Tolokonnikova said. “You’re not doing a political protest in order to be marginal, you are doing a political protest in order to be heard.”