Art Riot: Post-Soviet Actionism

Political activist and Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina talks about fighting Russian government propaganda at Saatchi Gallery's exhibition "Art Riot: Post-Soviet Actionism". The activist art collective Pussy Riot formed in 2011 when Vladmir Putin changed the constitution in order to run for a third term as president of Russia a move that sparked protests across the nation. Three of Pussy Riot's members, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina and Yekaterina Samutsevich, were arrested in 2012 and put on trial for hooliganism motivated by religious hatred after performing a protest song in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow.