Pussy Riot takes aim at Russia's oil industry in new video

Moscow: The Pussy Riot punk band took aim at President Vladimir Putin and how he runs Russia’s oil industry on Tuesday in its first video for almost a year. In the video posted on Youtube - http://youtu.be/qOM_3QH3bBw - four members of the feminist art performance group climb up gas flares and dance on oil pipelines, wearing their trademark brightly coloured masks, short dresses and tights. [caption id=“attachment_960403” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Pussy Riot protests. Image courtesy IBNLIve[/caption] The band, two of whose members are in jail over a protest in Moscow’s main Russian Orthodox cathedral in February 2012, pour what appears to be oil over a portrait of Igor Sechin, head of state oil firm Rosneft , in the video called “Like a Red Prison”. Criticising the close relationship between Putin and the Russian Orthodox Church - the theme of their protest in Moscow’s Christ the Saviour Cathedral - they chant: “Your president is like an ayatollah in Iran and your church is like in the United Arab Emirates.” Group members accuse Putin of orchestrating a crackdown on dissent and persecuting political opponents since returning to presidency in May last year. Reuters