Sources FEMEN on PUSSY RIOT

[Ian]

Dear Elena,
Thank you for responding so quickly.  
I had seen their livejournal and the new campaign to cut down crosses.  
If you do find the link to the interview that would be a big help.  
In addition to just talking about Pussy Riot I am curious if they ever talked about conceptual differences.  Pussy Riot did once in an interview with Vice Magazine: 
"Our
opinion on Femen is a complicated story. On one hand, they exploit a very
masculine and sexist rhetoric in their protests – men want to see aggressive
naked girls attacked by cops. On the other hand, their energy and the ability
to keep on going no matter what, is awesome and inspiring: One day they are in
Switzerland scaling the fence of the World Economic Forum and the next day they
are in Moscow attacking the HQ of Russia's biggest Natural Gas producer. And
even after they were tortured and humiliated by KGB agents in
Belarus, they vowed to keep on fighting even harder. Energy is very important
these days; Street groups in Europe and America often lack power, but these girls
have really got it."http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/A-Russian-Pussy-Riot
The differences interest me all the more since protests keep conflating the two groups mixing Pussy Riot's balaclavas with Femen's topless protests.
Best,
Ian 


Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 00:33:34 -0400
From: e.gapova at GMAIL.COM
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Sources FEMEN on PUSSY RIOT
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Femen have a blog on livejournal, where they list their activities. It is at: http://femen.livejournal.com/  Their recent reaction to the PR trial was cutting down a cross in Kiev (allegedly erected duting the Orange Revolution to commemorate Stalin's victims). The act was well documented: http://femen.livejournal.com/220299.html#cutid1
 In their interview right after the act Femen explained that they did not care if the feelings of believers were hurt: being non-believers, they only care about atheists' feelings (I cannot find the link right now, but will provide it on request).
 They also came up with the slogan "Пили кресты - спасай Россию!" and promised to come to Russia to cut some more wooden crosses in smaller Russian towns.  According to Echo Moskvy, several wooden crosses have already been vandalized across Russia: Сразу несколько деревянных поклонных крестов срубили неизвестные в российских городах (http://echo.msk.ru/news/923253-echo.html )
   Elena Gapova

2012/8/27 Ian <baiterek at hotmail.com>





Hi all, 

looking for sources when Femen talks about Pussy Riot.  Doing my own searches, but considering the might collective memory we have here I wanted to see if there were things that stood out to people.  Feel free to respond off list (baiterek at hotmail.com) or get a discussion going here.

Best,
Ian  		 	   		  
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