The brutal attack on Pussy Riot in Sochi can be read in three ways:
1)
The perpetrators acted on government orders;
2)
The government turned a blind eye to their
actions;
3)
The government played no role, but is incapable
of protecting its citizens.
I suspect the first explanation, but there is no version of
events that does not bespeak a profound failure by the Russian state.
As for Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina, and the
other members of Pussy Riot, they have again demonstrated their bravery through
principled defiance of the Putin regime. They continue to force the Putinists
to show their true colors.
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