PERFORMANCE PIECE GETS PUSSY RIOT MEMBER DETAINED BY RUSSIAN POLICE

A founding member of Pussy Riot, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, was detained on Friday along activist Ekaterina Nenasheva in Moscow, according to the New York Times. The two had just started to stage a protest performance in Bolotnaya Square.

Nenasheva’s goal was to spend thirty days wearing a Russian prison uniform while going on with her life. The women, in headscarves as well as the uniforms, are shown in online photographs bringing sewing machine, stools, fabric, and thread, to the square, where they spread out panels of red, white, and blue cloth—the colors of the Russian flag. Soon, however, Russian police, who got wind of their project, forced them to their feet and moved them onto a police bus.

Tolokonnikova posted—along with selfies of each of them inside the bus—Nenasheva’s statement for her project on her Facebook page. The two have been detained “for disturbing public order.”