PUSSY RIOT Slam This Year’s VENICE BIENNALE ARTE For Accepting RUSSIA Again With Guerilla Flamethrower ‘DISOBEY’
Vitalizing tunes that work faster than a stream of caffeine
7 May 2026
Courtesy Pussy Riot – Photo by Nikita Teryoshin
You can’t shut up the imperishable Russian political activists PUSSY RIOT and
their ever-growing fanbase. This year marks their 15th year of opposition against
the Kremlin tyranny.
Thus far, they expressed their fierce discontent with two loud and clear studio LPs,
several mixtapes and a series of barbed wire singles, and countless live protests
in their home country, in Ukraine, and in the Western world.
And now, after yesterday’s protests in Italy (more below), the band released,
in a rush, a guerrilla-made punk flamethrower, annex video of the happening.
A nasty slam dunk, called DISOBEY, comes amid the controversial Russian
return to this year’s Biennale Arte in Venice – Italy, which has led to the
EU cutting funding, the Jury resigning, and many protests. Of course, the
Pussy Riot movement was present on the front line.
Over 50 PR members stormed the Russian Pavilion at the Biennale, only yesterday.
Police were forced to close the doors of the pavilion. They tackled PR followers
who managed to get inside and open the door that was being blocked. All Pussy
Rioters wore pink ski masks and had pink smoke, they raised their fists, played
guitars, and moshed as a protest.
Time to act pronto, musically too!
Nadya Tolokonnikova (founding PR member): “I wanted to do a classic punk song,
in old school Pussy Riot style. I’ve been trying to be polite, writing letters via the Council
of Europe, writing directly to the board, to the president, to people in the art world, and
dead ends everywhere.
Polite society doesn’t work when you are dealing with thugs and crooks, so we meet
them with punk, we have to scream our anger and disdain for what is happening.
Over 50 members of Pussy Riot, from all over the world, came here
to the Storm of Venice, to scream and take part in this moment.
We quickly go into editing mode after, gathering photographers and video people,
we cut the video sitting in a cafe, and turn it around in a day, this is our actionist training
in action. This is our art, and our protest. We hope the punks, freaks, and actually anyone
who ever felt like fucking screaming to enjoy this song and moment with us. Fuck Putin.”
Video by Taisiya Krugovykh & Vasily Bogatov.
Wake up, Italy.
Wake up world.
Fuck Putin!!
