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Playboy Wants Pussy Riot for Centerfold

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Playboy magazine’s Ukrainian edition has offered a member of the Russian female punk band Pussy Riot, who is currently awaiting verdict in a trial in Moscow on hooliganism charges, to pose for its centerfold, Russian daily Izvestia reported on Wednesday.

Playboy magazine’s Ukrainian edition has offered a member of the Russian female punk band Pussy Riot, who is currently awaiting verdict in a trial in Moscow on hooliganism charges, to pose for its centerfold, Russian daily Izvestia reported on Wednesday.

“Our readers are active users of social networks where Pussy Riot girls have been the main heroines of the past few months,” Playboy Ukraine’s editor-in-chief, Vlad Ivanenko, told the paper.

“We consider Nadezhda Tolokonnikova an artist and believe that her appearance in a Playboy Ukraine centerfold would be well received by the audience,” he said, adding that his deputy “dreams of marrying Nadezhda.”

Tolokonnikova, 22, along with two other Pussy Riot participants, Maria Alyokhina, 24, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, 30, are facing up to seven years in jail for performing a “punk prayer” in Moscow’s main cathedral in February, asking the Virgin Mary to “drive Putin out.”

The three women were arrested shortly afterwards and charged with hooliganism aimed at "inciting religious hatred." They have dismissed the charges, saying that their stunt was intended to highlight the close alliance between the Orthodox Church and the state in Russia.

The verdict in the controversial trial, which has sparked heated debates in Russia and triggered strong criticism from Russian and international rights groups, is expected on Friday.

Ivanenko said Playboy had already contacted Tolokonnikova’s defense to arrange a photo shoot if the court decides to free the women on Friday.

 

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