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Pussy Riot members attacked by Cossacks while staging protest in Sochi
Yahoo! Sports ^ | 02/19/2014 | Jay Busbee

Posted on 02/19/2014 11:00:43 AM PST by The KG9 Kid

The Russian punk-protest group Pussy Riot had pledged for months to seek to disrupt the Sochi Olympics, and has begun carrying through on that promise. But the group's latest attempt at a protest was dismantled almost before it began.

One day after members of the loosely-connected group were questioned in connection with some suspected thefts at a Sochi hotel, Pussy Riot gathered at a restaurant in downtown Sochi, about 20 miles from the Olympic village. The band attempted to begin performing, but was set upon by whip-wielding Cossack militiamen.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; olympics; pussy; pussyriot; russia; sochi
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The gold medal goes to Vladimir Putin for the best effort at making a crackdown on anti-gay demonstrations look positively gay.

Leather whips, bushy mustaches, cossack hats, Gestapo uniforms, bondage masks, all the colors of the rainbow represented, and the only Olympic event that the Russian are truly recognized to dominate in seems to be Men's Ice Dancing.

But honestly, Russia: Your footwear fashion is stuck in 1979.

What. In. THE. Hell.

1 posted on 02/19/2014 11:00:43 AM PST by The KG9 Kid
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To: The KG9 Kid

Spoiled celebs with too much time and money on their hands.


2 posted on 02/19/2014 11:02:27 AM PST by CorporateStepsister (I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
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To: The KG9 Kid

Man oh man, that photo is screaming “Photoshop.”


3 posted on 02/19/2014 11:02:28 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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Pussy Riot
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pussy Riot

Pussy Riot is a Russian feminist punk rock protest group based in Moscow. Founded in August 2011, it has a variable membership of approximately 11 women[1] ranging in age from about 20 to 33.[2] They stage unauthorized provocative guerrilla performances in unusual public locations, which are edited into music videos and posted on the Internet.[3] Their lyrical themes include feminism, LGBT rights, opposition to the policies of Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom they regard as a dictator,[2] and links between Putin and the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church.[4]


4 posted on 02/19/2014 11:03:54 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Lazamataz; Revolting cat!; JoeProBono; Daffynition; GeronL; Slings and Arrows

Russia is trying to outweird Japan PING!


5 posted on 02/19/2014 11:04:26 AM PST by a fool in paradise ("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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To: The KG9 Kid

That guy is actually a member of the band “The Village Cossacks”.


6 posted on 02/19/2014 11:04:35 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: 1rudeboy
It gets worse:


7 posted on 02/19/2014 11:07:03 AM PST by The KG9 Kid
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To: The KG9 Kid

They went there to provoke and get beaten, and they got their wish.


8 posted on 02/19/2014 11:07:50 AM PST by LowTaxesEqualsProsperity
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To: a fool in paradise

probably not possible


9 posted on 02/19/2014 11:08:23 AM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: The KG9 Kid
You know what annoys me the most? Here we have a feminist band (won't even dignify it with the word, "punk") looking for publicity, and the Russians know it.

So what do the Russians do? Give them more publicity than they could ever dream about.

10 posted on 02/19/2014 11:09:49 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: The KG9 Kid

That whole thing looks like a Monty Python skit.


11 posted on 02/19/2014 11:10:30 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: 1rudeboy

... and peg the Gaydar until the needle broke off while doing it.


12 posted on 02/19/2014 11:11:20 AM PST by The KG9 Kid
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To: 1rudeboy

Hopefully the skimask thing will catch on with Code Pink. I’ve seen enough of Medea Benjamin for 6 lifetimes.


13 posted on 02/19/2014 11:11:36 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Did you notice the guy in the chicken costume toward the end? He seemed to get by unmolested.


14 posted on 02/19/2014 11:12:51 AM PST by SpirituTuo
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To: The KG9 Kid

Video from site:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrkM84jsx1w

Obama wishes he could do the same here.
But not to the heterophobes.


15 posted on 02/19/2014 11:13:17 AM PST by Slambat
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To: 1rudeboy

No, the media gives them exposure. Russia should make them vanish.


16 posted on 02/19/2014 11:13:18 AM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: The KG9 Kid

Cossacks look like Cossacks. There they carry whips whereas South African police still carry sjamboks. Questionably relevant anarchofeminists look like questionably relevant anarchofeminists.


17 posted on 02/19/2014 11:14:08 AM PST by OldNewYork
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To: The KG9 Kid

A local news broadcast played a clip of one of their recordings yesterday. It sounded to me like Klingon opera - just awful.


18 posted on 02/19/2014 11:14:38 AM PST by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: trisham

Disgusting.

These P#$$^ Riot girls are out the disrupt the Russian Olympics and raise offensive political and social issues going as far as to call Putin a dictator, promote homosexuality and even question the Orthodox Church.


19 posted on 02/19/2014 11:14:47 AM PST by Oliviaforever
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Aren’t they “famous” for breaking into churches and making porn?


20 posted on 02/19/2014 11:15:03 AM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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