{"id":49653,"date":"2013-07-16T16:16:55","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T15:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=49653"},"modified":"2017-03-28T10:28:04","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T09:28:04","slug":"pussy-riot-versus-darth-vadar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=49653","title":{"rendered":"Pussy Riot versus Darth Vader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subtitle\">The feminist punk collective has released a new song and video ahead of an appeal hearing for jailed member <a href=\"http:\/\/rapsinews.com\/judicial_news\/20130703\/268017047.html\">Maria Alyokhina<\/a> on 24 July, Padraig Reidy reports<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE: <a href=\"http:\/\/freepussyriot.org\/content\/pussy-riot-new-video-hooray-finally-its-done-we-have-imitators\">A blog post<\/a> on FreePussyRiot.Org has thrown doubt on the origin of the new song<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Having previously attacked close ties between the church and the Putin regime in Punk Prayer, the group has now turned their rage on Russia&#8217;s oil industry.<\/p>\n<p>The song singles out head of state oil company Rosneft\u00a0Igor Sechin for criticism. Sechin, like Putin a former KGB man, is known as &#8220;Darth Vader&#8221; and &#8220;the scariest man on earth&#8221; in Russian media.<\/p>\n<p>The song also contains the line &#8220;Cut off your penis like the Depardieu character&#8221;, a reference to\u00a0La Derni\u00e8re femme,\u00a0an obscure 1976 film in which the French actor Gerard Depardieu&#8217;s character castrates himself.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/flashembed.aspx?t=vid&amp;id=25047813&amp;w=640&amp;h=429&amp;skin=embeded\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Depardieu became a Russian citizen in January of this year, in protest against France&#8217;s high taxes. In May, he reportedly described Vladimir Putin as a friend and compared him to Pope John Paul II, telling\u00a0Komsomolskaya Pravda:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I will say what I think about Putin: the Russian nation needs a person just like this &#8211; with a Russian temper. Putin is trying to return just a bit of dignity back to the people.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;For me, he is like (former French president) Francois Mitterrand or Pope John Paul II. I never said this to journalists before, but this is what I think.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The song also denounces sexism and homophobia, a reference to recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2013\/06\/anti-gay-law-passes-in-russia\/\">anti-gay laws<\/a> passed in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2013\/06\/pussy-riot-in-london-we-are-now-in-a-fight-when-the-world-is-less-sexist-then-we-will-celebrate\/\">interview<\/a> with Index on Censorship last month, Pussy Riot told Index that\u00a0\u201cThe society Putin proposes is a very macho, male-dominated society\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>They continued: &#8220;We are now in a fight. When the world is less sexist, when we have achieved our goals, then we will celebrate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The feminist punk collective has released a new song and video. <strong>Padraig Reidy<\/strong> reports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[581,15],"tags":[5669,5667,4390,5668,7349,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49653"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88384,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49653\/revisions\/88384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}