Pussy Riot Detained, Released, Then Chased in Sochi

RIA Novosti ^ | February 18, 2014 | Alexey Eremenko

[Navy Patriot]

SOCHI, February 18 (Alexey Eremenko, RIA Novosti) – When five masked Pussy Riot activists emerged from a Sochi police precinct, they broke into a song titled “[Russian President Vladimir] Putin Will Teach You to Love the Motherland.”

The show did not attract much attention from the local denizens, but a loud, anxious, trampling crowd of foreign reporters chased them relentlessly as the activists began to scurry away while still singing the song.

An improvised press conference in the middle of the street followed, to the mad honking of blocked traffic. After an encore of the song, the activists sprinted over to a taxi stand where they all were driven away, without removing their masks, by impassive grizzled cabbies.

[Navy Patriot]

Pussy Riot, ignored by Russian civilians, idolized by Western media.

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

Madonna just crashed their recent concert in NYC and went onstage with the women of Pussy Riot to discuss Putin’s anti-gay stance....

[gr8eman]

If they were smart they would come to hollywierd and start signing big contrcts. Their elongated 15 minutes are almost up.

[chiefqc]

Mac daddy was cheering while watching it on TV.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Am I the only one who wonders if the name of the group somehow doesn’t translate well into English? A group of girls called Pussy Riot? Or is my mind just in the gutter on this one???

[BenLurkin]

It’s their minds — that are in the gutter.

[Mich Patriot]

If your mind went right to the gutter, you passed. High five!

[Cementjungle]

Their elongated 15 minutes are almost up.

They might get 15 more minutes... as local celebrities once they've been permanently relocated to somewhere in Siberia.

[Biggirl]

While going to my email inbox, saw what looked like one of the band members showing a white panty garment, good grief, how low can you go.

[Charles Martel]

The “chasing” part does sound like fun. Did they use the Benny Hill music?

[SeminoleCounty]

This group is a hero among the Gay, Globalist, and Goofball crowd

[Biggirl]

Or Obama may make an offer to Putin to have them relocate to Hollywood, CA, just to take them off his hands.

[Navy Patriot]

Or is my mind just in the gutter on this one???

YOUR mind is not in the gutter, you didn't select the agitator's name, and they are, and always have been, playing to the liberal West and the liberal Western Media. Considering that, are they so stupid as to make a translation "mistake"?

[null and void]

I was wondering the same thing, I doubt there are the same multiple meanings to the word in Russian as there are in English, but I do wonder if it is a double entendre in both languages.

[no-s]

Pussy Riot, ignored by Russian civilians, idolized by Western media.

Probably because the protests are too obscene to even show on local TV. They are capital-N Nutty - e.g. "let's protest patriarchal society by having a massive sex-a-thon in a museum". The chick who organized the whole thing got sentenced to a term in the labor camp - and she was 5-months pregnant.

[Abathar]

Pussy Riot, impassive grizzled cabbies, this writer is having a field day with his English translator for this story...

[Navy Patriot]

Madonna, now there's a morally outstanding lady!

Oh wait, you didn't mean that one, you meant the one out standing on Martin Luther King Boulevard.

[Publius]

The origin of the word is French. The French call it "le chat", the cat. The English derivation is clear, and it has probably seeped into Russian in some form.

[Cementjungle]

Or Obama may make an offer to Putin to have them relocate to Hollywood, CA, just to take them off his hands

Maybe they can move in with Justin Bieber.

[Navy Patriot]

Did they use the Benny Hill music?

They would be fools not to.