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What do you call a punk-rock band whose members get sentenced to two years in prison camps for political protest? Badass, that’s what. This Russian feminist art collective managed to provoke the fury of President Vladimir Putin and the Orthodox Church. During a trial for three of its members, Pussy Riot released this single, an old-school punk rager with four chords and a mob of Rioters yelling even more invective at Putin. Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova were convicted of “hooliganism” and are still imprisoned. It’s a human-rights travesty — and it also means that Pussy Riot have had a greater real-world political impact than any other punk band.