Pussy Riot Co-Founder Nadya Tolokonnikova Still Banging The Drum For Freedom In Russia: “Rage Is Probably My Primary Emotion”
deadline.comNadya Tolokonnikova, co-founder of the feminist protest art collective Pussy Riot, was in Berlin when news broke on February 16 of the sudden death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in an Arctic penal colony.
Two days later, she was protesting in front of the Russian embassy in Berlin alongside Pussy Riot co-member Lucy Shtein, his lawyer Lyubov Sobol and former Russian state TV employee and 2022 Deadline Disruptor Marina Ovsyannikova.
Like most Navalny allies, Tolokonnikova believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin has blood on his hands. The activist, artist and performer fronted another Navalny commemoration at the Wende Museum in Los Angeles on March 2. “They opened their doors for us to make a pop-up exhibit and just let people come together.
It’s very important for me that we don’t close in on our little selves and grieve alone,” Tolokonnikova says via Zoom. Tolokonnikova says Navalny was instrumental in her birth as a pro-democracy activist in her early 20s.
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