Cossacks attack **bleep** Riot

[icyfroth]

The **bleep** Riot punk group has been attacked in Sochi by Cossacks wielding  whips and pepper spray, as they were about to perform a song.

Witnesses said members of the group had just put on their trademark brightly  coloured balaclavas in a restaurant in Sochi in preparation for the performance.

  But when they left the restaurant they were set upon by about a dozen Cossacks –  local militia who are used by police to help patrol the town, AP reported.

One Cossack smashed their guitar and others tried to rip off the  balaclavas.

[**meep**]

I thought the 2 members of **bleep** Riot were still in jail.....

[cherry*135]

On Wednesday morning the International Olympic Committee warned **bleep** Riot not to come to the Olympic park for any political demonstration.

After the arrest on Tuesday there were some reports that they would try to perform at the Olympic park, half an hour away.

“If they did it would be wholly inappropriate,” said IOC spokesman Mark Adams.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/cossacks-attack-**bleep**-riot-in-sochi-with-whips-and-pepper-spray-2014...

[cherry*135]

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@**meep** wrote:

I thought the 2 members of **bleep** Riot were still in jail.....

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I googled that, they got out (early) in Dec 2013.. and are no longer members of **bleep** riot.

[**meep**]

Is our Winter Olympian Belle Brockhoff still going ahead with her protest about gay rights in Russia?

[**meep**]

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@am*3 wrote:

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@**meep** wrote:

I thought the 2 members of **bleep** Riot were still in jail.....

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I googled that, they got out (early) in Dec 2013.. and are no longer members of **bleep** riot.

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I see.  Thanks.

[icyfroth]

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@am*3 wrote:

On Wednesday morning the International Olympic Committee warned **bleep** Riot not to come to the Olympic park for any political demonstration.

After the arrest on Tuesday there were some reports that they would try to perform at the Olympic park, half an hour away.

“If they did it would be wholly inappropriate,” said IOC spokesman Mark Adams.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/cossacks-attack-**bleep**-riot-in-sochi-with-whips-and-pepper-spray-2014...

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my video's clearer than yours so there...