Amplifier-Interview with Pussy Riot

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…