Interview with Pussy Riot about new video

Pussy Riot's leader, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, spoke with the Daily Beast about their new music video, which makes fun of the Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Y. Chaika.

"My American friend [Dave Sitek, who produced the video song] suggested that this time we do hip-hop, the genre originally rooted in gangster culture," said NT. "So in the film we have a criminal, the biggest gangster there is in Russia: Prosecutor General Yuri Y. Chaika."

[Tolokonnikova] plays a rather special version of Chaika. She wears a tight uniform, fishnet stockings, and patent pink high heels that sharpen her long legs. Over and over she sings Chaika's rules: "Be loyal to those in power, because power is a gift from God, son. I love Russia. I'm a patriot."

The words come straight from Chaika's declarations after members of the Russian opposition investigated him and leveled against him allegations of massive corruption and connections with organized crime.