“I RUN the war on corruption here, or to be precise, I run the corruption here,” raps Nadya Tolokonnikova, one of the leaders of the art-punk protest collective Pussy Riot, in a new song aimed at Russia’s prosecutor-general, Yuri Chaika. In a video clip released on the internet on Wednesday, Ms Tolokonnikova and a cadre of conspirators dressed in prosecutors’ uniforms take turns beating prisoners, collecting bribes and dancing salaciously under a portrait of Vladimir Putin. “Don’t worry, son, we’ll shut up all our competitors,” intones Ms Tolokonnikova. “You’ll have your bricks, your ships and your salt mine.”
For those baffled by the lyrics, they stem from an investigation released in December by the opposition leader Alexei Navalny, whom Ms Tolokonnikova calls “my political muse”. In a 45-minute film, Mr Navalny and his anti-corruption foundation implicated Mr Chaika and his sons in a vast web of graft that stretches from an Irkutsk shipyard to a luxury hotel in Greece. While Mr Navalny’s crusades against government officials are nothing new, the case against the Chaikas, if it claims are accurate, would be the most...Continue reading
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