Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

Nadezhda Andreyevna Tolokonnikova , nicknamed Nadya Tolokno , is a Russian conceptual artist and political activist. She is a member of the antiPutinist punk rock group Pussy Riot, and has a history of political activism with the controversial street art group Voina. On August 17, 2012, she was convicted of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred after a performance in Moscow Cathedral of Christ the Saviour and sentenced to two years imprisonment. On December 23, 2013, she was released early with another Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina under a newly passed amnesty bill dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Russian constitution.

Tolokonnikova was born on November 7, 1989 in Norilsk, a heavily polluted extremeweather industrial city in the Russian Arctic. In her late school years, she was active in amateur modern literature and art projects, organized by the Novoye Literaturnoye Obozreniye.

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