Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

The words we spoke and our entire punk performance aimed to express our disapproval of a specific political event: the patriarchs' support of Vladimir Putin, who has taken an authoritarian and anti-feminist course.

As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.

Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.

It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that.

Modern capitalism seeks to assure us that it operates according to the principles of free creativity, endless development and diversity. It glosses over its other side in order to hide the reality that millions of people are enslaved by an all-powerful and fantastically stable norm of production. We want to reveal this lie.