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Played: 2026-06-04 (Segment 5 — Punk run) (TikTok)
Pussy Riot are a Russian feminist punk collective founded in Moscow in 2011, primarily led by Nadya Tolokonnikova following the imprisonment of core members in 2012. "DISOBEY" was released May 2026 as the lead single from their debut album CYKA (Russian for "bitch"), released June 12, 2026. The music video was filmed during Pussy Riot's "Storm of Venice" protest at the Venice Biennale, in which over 50 members stormed the Russian pavilion with clouds of pink smoke, joined by Ukrainian activist group FEMEN. The song's release was a direct response to Russia's return to the Biennale. Built around distorted guitars and relentless chants of "disobey" in English and Russian, Tolokonnikova delivers the line: "Get up from your couch and fight." Opens segment five, immediately following the Moment in History — the Cold War history gives way to the present without a gap. The most explicitly political track in the show, and at 1:29 it hits fast and gets out.