Bullies proclaiming “national patriarchy” harass Russian feminists
Some fear the police are abetting them
ANNA KUZMINYKH, a 27-year-old film director, is also a member of Pussy Riot, a punk-rock-and-performance-art group that has been protesting against Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian government for the better part of a decade. In July, along with four other members of the group, she was arrested (twice) for “disobeying police orders”.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Bigots anonymous”
Europe August 28th 2021
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- France’s Greens prepare to pick a standard-bearer
- The Social Democrats’ surge upends Germany’s election campaign
- Employment is growing strongly in the euro zone
- Bullies proclaiming “national patriarchy” harass Russian feminists
- The fiction that Turkey is a candidate to join the EU is unravelling
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