N2NH
11-27-2012, 01:42 PM
Shill, puppet or tool?
If the punk band Pussy Riot has become the poster child for Russian dissent in the era of Vladimir V. Putin (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/vladimir_v_putin/index.html?inline=nyt-per), then Svetlana Kuritsyna is the very antithesis: a disarmingly direct, red-cheeked, 20-year-old Putin supporter from an impoverished rural region.
Pussy Riot — three of whose members were sentenced to prison for singing an anti-Putin song in a cathedral — became synonymous with outlandish behavior. Ms. Kuritsyna has stood out for her very normality and has become an accidental celebrity after an innocent, and somewhat inarticulate, video interview (http://youtu.be/24XBX0Wkmpw) in which she glowingly praised Mr. Putin. It quickly became an Internet meme, drawing more than two million views on YouTube and leading to the ultimate prize of the modern media age: her own reality show...
From the masters of debunking and damage control, we get "perky" Svetlana Kuritsyna.
A time for everything in it's season...
Pussy Riot’s Perky Antithesis (https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/27/world/europe/sveta-pussy-riots-perky-antithesis.html?_r=0)
If the punk band Pussy Riot has become the poster child for Russian dissent in the era of Vladimir V. Putin (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/vladimir_v_putin/index.html?inline=nyt-per), then Svetlana Kuritsyna is the very antithesis: a disarmingly direct, red-cheeked, 20-year-old Putin supporter from an impoverished rural region.
Pussy Riot — three of whose members were sentenced to prison for singing an anti-Putin song in a cathedral — became synonymous with outlandish behavior. Ms. Kuritsyna has stood out for her very normality and has become an accidental celebrity after an innocent, and somewhat inarticulate, video interview (http://youtu.be/24XBX0Wkmpw) in which she glowingly praised Mr. Putin. It quickly became an Internet meme, drawing more than two million views on YouTube and leading to the ultimate prize of the modern media age: her own reality show...
From the masters of debunking and damage control, we get "perky" Svetlana Kuritsyna.
A time for everything in it's season...
Pussy Riot’s Perky Antithesis (https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/27/world/europe/sveta-pussy-riots-perky-antithesis.html?_r=0)