“Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer,” August 15, 2022 (2013), DVD, in Russian subtitled. We greatly appreciated this fascinating, raw BBC documentary. It gives us the story of this anarchistic, feminist, pro-LGBTQ punk band and their battles with both the Russian Orthodox Church and Vladimir Putin. It begins with the musical disruption of a service at the huge and grotesquely ostentatious post-Soviet Cathedral of Christ the Savior (been there, it is) in Moscow by five masked women as they sing songs and act out denunciations of church/state collusion and their opposition to their authoritarian statae and society. Three are arrested: Nadezhda Tolkonnikove (Nadia) a wild conceptual artist/activist, Muriya Algokhina (Sasha) a writer/activist, and Yakterina Samutsevitch (Katrina), a slightly older (30) computer programmer/performer/activist. All three were also involved in a movement that targeted police for unprovoked kisses in public. Two of the three are convicted and sentenced to 3 years in prison, while Katrina is released on a technicality. The anarchist band’s anti-authoritarian music was seen as profoundly disturbing to the status quo and even liberal opponents of the Putin regime opposed their tactics while western commentators condemned the trial and convictions as persecution. Their work since their release has included continued critiques of the Putin regime and its counterparts in the in the west (including the United States). Nadia and Sasha have both fled to the west since the invasion of Ukraine.