According to AFP reporting from Moscow, a street female vocalist group sings with great success against Putin in the city:
"Eight members of an all-girl punk group stood on a platform in Red Square and started an impromptu show. "Riot in Russia!" they screamed, before taunting Putin and urging Russians to hit the streets in protest. The show lasted mere minutes.
The quick Red Square performance under drab snowy skies was captured on numerous mobile phones and quickly disseminated online, where state media and bloggers, including protest leader Alexei Navalny, picked it up.
"We are against Putin, against the regime," one of the band's vocalists, using the nickname Garadzha, told AFP. "We wanted to show that this can happen in Russia, that there are girls who are active, who can do things like this".
They see themselves as part of a wave of radical activists whose protests combine politics and art, shooting team of artists Voina/War.
Four were charged with non-criminal public order offences and ordered to attend court, Garadzha said, but none of them went to the hearings.
The group have performed to surprised passengers on the metro, on top of a trolley bus and on a roof opposite a police cell where protest leader and blogger Navalny was being held.
Detained protesters watched as group members yelled, "Occupy the squares, seize power peacefully, take away the machine guns from all the cops".
"When we finished, they started yelling and saying 'When we're together, we're unbeatable!'" said another member, Tyurya.
No female activist has served a 15-day sentence, as Navalny did.
The group has been detained several times but seem unconcerned, saying the worst that could happen would be spending a night in jail", reports AFP.
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