Recently, I visited Montreal’s Musée des Arts Contemporain, where I had the chance to be introduced to the Russian Pussy Riot movement. Pussy Riot is an activist group that uses provocative punk music to express their messages. Their claims especially denounce the way that Putin runs the country as well as his link to the orthodox church and how both largely affect Russia’s international relationships with other countries. The group started out in 2011 as a small group of 15 women, led by Nadya Tolokonnikova. Through illegal public “shows”, in which they would sing punk songs targeting…