Pussy Riot ’Whipped’ By Cossacks Patrolling Sochi Winter Olympics

Members of Pussy Riot have claimed they were attacked with whips as they tried to perform a song in Sochi. “Under the banner Sochi 2014, to the sound of “Putin will teach us to love the homeland“, Cossacks attacked Pussy Riot, beat us with whips and sprayed a lot of pepper gas at us,“ Nadezhda Tolokonnikova wrote on Twitter. Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, who served prison sentences over a protest in a church against President Vladimir Putin, were detained on suspicion of theft in Sochi on