Pussy Riot Release New Song

Riot Fest alums, Pussy Riot, have released a new song to “commemorate” Vladimir Putin being re-elected as Russia’s President.

The totally legitimate and not rigged at all elections this past Sunday, will see Putin become President for a 3rd term and another 6 years.

The song, titled “E L E C T I O N S”, talks about the bands plan for the next 6 years,

Six years we gonna fight
Six years we not gonna obey
Six years i gonna start a gang
Six years we’re not gonna eat slop scraps

The incumbent received 76 percent of the vote. Every vote was counted, no dissidents were jailed nor murdered; and candidate Alexei Navalny — Putin’s biggest threat, was banned from the election by Russia’s central electoral commission for totally legitimate reasons. In fact, you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who willing to say a bad word about Vladimir Putin in public. Democracy works!

Pussy Riot posted a brave and powerful statement with the new video on YouTube: Pussy Riot wrote:

What has eighteen years of Putin’s power has brought to us?

Arrests, poisonings, tortures, murders of political activists.

Institutional corruption… which is HUGE.

Total erosion of democratic institutions.

Giant economic inequality.

Worsening of prison conditions.

Environmental catastrophe in lots of industrial regions of Russia.

Censorship everywhere — in media, in education, on the internet, in people’s heads.

Self-censorship, caused by fear.

You should not be deceived, this event on 18 March is not elections.

Falsifications, eliminations of political opponents, Kremlin-controlled media leave no chance for anybody except Putin.

Pictures that you can see in the video were painted by Oleg Navalny, a political prisoner, convicted to 3.5 years in jail because he’s a brother of Alexey Navalny, Putin’s fiercest political opponent.