Complete with an open letter to Putin.
are no strangers to protest. Since being arrested for their punk prayer in a Moscow church in 2012, they've evolved from a band into a movement on an endless crusade against injustice in Russia and beyond. There have been performances at Banksy’s Dismaland, immersive theatre pieces at the Saatchi Gallery andthat have tackled everything from the police state, Donald Trump, to LGBT+ rights and the refugee crisis.
Now they're back at it again with another impactful release, and they’ve shifted their attention to our impending ecological disaster.is Nadya Tolokonnikova and her collaborators reacting to an environmental catastrophe they’ve experienced first hand, set to a trap track that turns full on metal after a breakdown. Directed by Nadya, the video sees them performing in the bleak landscape of her Norilsk hometown -- dubbedBut make sure you pay attention to the lyrics.
The toxic black snow in question made headlines earlier this year, when it fell over coal mining regions of Siberia and left the area in a post-apocalyptic state. In February,reported that “the coal dust that turns the snow black in the Kuzbass comes from numerous open pit mines that environmental activists say have had disastrous consequences for the health of the region’s 2.
To accompany the release, Nadya has written an open letter to Putin in which she tells him: “When you go outside in Norilsk, you have to wrap yourself up in [a] scarf -- not just because of the blizzards, but because the sulfur dioxide burns your eyes, nose, mouth, and lungs. When combined with water, sulfur dioxide turns into sulfuric acid. If Taiga Larches get necrosis from the acid, what do you think is happening to your precious little alveoli? Nobody the hell knows.
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