Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Instagram – Pussy Riot won the court case against russia in the European Court of Human Rights. russia is to pay us $100,000 – which russia won’t do, but it’s still cute when you get to win over the ter*orist state. In 2014 we were whipped, pepper-sprayed, beaten, detained, dragged by our hair during Sochi Olympics. We came to Sochi to protest corruption, crackdown of the independent media, and to demand the release of all political prisoners in russia. russia has failed to pay judgements from the court on other matters, making it unlikely that it will pay the damages this time. Following its invasion of Ukraine, russia was expelled from the Council of Europe, which oversees the court. thank you Agora, Pasha Chikov, Natasha Dobreva for being the best lawyers on the planet Earth.