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Pussy Riot claim responsibility for World Cup final pitch
invasion
Shaun Walker in Moscow
Protest performance group say four members ran on to pitch in protest during second half
Sun 15 Jul 2018 13.05 EDT
The Russian protest performance group Pussy Riot have claimed responsibility for a pitch
invasion early in the second half of the World Cup final.
“Right now, there are four members of Pussy Riot on the pitch,” the group wrote on its Facebook
page. Later a member of the band, Olga Kurachyova, told Reuters she was one of those who had
run on to the pitch. She said she was being detained in a Moscow police station.
The Russian news website Mediazona reported that three women and one man had taken part in
the protest and all four had been taken to a nearby police station.
The group said the pitch invasion had been a protest with demands including:
Pussy Riot gained notoriety for a protest inside Moscow’s biggest cathedral in 2012, for which
three participants were arrested and jailed. Since then, the three women who were put on trial
have separated, with two of them – Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina – still
appearing separately using the Pussy Riot name.
Free political prisoners.
Do not put people in jail for social media “likes”.
Stop illegal detentions at political rallies.
Allow political competition in Russia.
Do not fabricate criminal cases and detain people for no reason.
A woman is removed from the pitch during the World Cup final
between France and Croatia. Photograph: Michael
Zemanek/BPI/Rex/Shutterstock

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The group’s Twitter account said photographs and video would be posted soon. “Hi everyone
from the pitch at Luzhniki, it’s cool here,” the tweet read.
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