Pussy Riot
Pussy Riot is a Russian feminist punk rock protest group based in Moscow.
On February 21, 2012, five members of the group staged a performance in Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Savior.
Their actions were stopped by church security officials. By that evening, they had turned theperformance into a music video entitled “Punk Prayer – Mother of God, Chase Putin Away!” The women said their protest was directed at the Orthodox Church leader’s support for Putin during his election campaign.
On March 3, 2012, two of the group members, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, were arrested and charged with hooliganism. A third member, Yekaterina Samutsevich, was arrested on March 16. More on Wikipedia.