Russian Militia Suppress Pussy Riot Performance With Whips

The performance was over before the music even started. A Russian militia group broke up an attempted political demonstration by the punk group Pussy Riot near the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, on Wednesday.

Cossack militia members, an auxiliary police force in the region, attacked the Pussy Riot members with whips and removed their now-trademark balaclava masks in an incident that lasted less than five minutes, the Associated Press reports

This comes one day after two members of Pussy Riot were arrested on suspicion of theft and later released near Sochi. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina had recently returned to their native Russia after a speaking tour that brought them to Europe and the United States Read more...