Pussy Riot lampoon Putin in new House of Cards season





The provocative punk rock band describe Russian President figure as “not afraid of anyone except gays” in a forthcoming episode of Kevin Spacey’s hit Netflix series .

Pussy Riot have described a fictional Vladimir Putin-esque Russian President as a man “not afraid of anyone except gays” and “who loves his friends so much that he has sold them half the country”, in a scene in the third season of Kevin Spacey’s Golden Globe-winning House of Cards.

Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, members of the punk rock band, encounter Viktor Petrov, a thinly-disguised Putin replica, at a dinner party thrown by Spacey's machiavellian manipulator Frank Underwood, the group have revealed in an interview with the Russian opposition magazine New Times.

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