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Pussy Riot Release 'Witches of Pussy Riot Clean Manezhka' Video

Pussy Riot Release New Video
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Entertainment Editor, The Huffington Post

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Pussy Riot has released a new video ahead of the Russian court's verdict against opposition leader Alexei Navalny. The video, "Witches of Pussy Riot Clean Manezhka," calls for people to demonstrate outside the Kremlin on Tuesday. The clip features group members Masha Alekhina and Nadya Tolokonnikova cleaning Moscow's Manezh Square in preparation for the protests. “This is above all a propaganda video,” Tolokonnikova told BuzzFeed News.

Maria Baronova, an opposition activist, and Elena Kostyuchenko, a journalist and LGBT activist, join the band for the song, which repeats the same four words over in Russian: "Clean. Honest. Word. Deed."

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Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, a member of the feminist punk band, Pussy Riot, listens from behind bars at a district court in Saransk on Friday, July 26, 2013. (AP Photo) (credit:AP)
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Jailed feminist punk band Pussy Riot member Maria Alekhina appears on a TV screen during a live session with the court during a hearing of her appeal in a courtroom in Perm, 1200 kms (750 miles) east of Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, July 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander Agafonov) (credit:AP)
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A Russian punk band Pussy Riot member, who gave only her stage name of Grelka, wearing a blue balaclava, speaks to the media in Moscow, Tuesday, July 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) (credit:AP)
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An Amnesty International member holds a hand knitted Pussy Riot fan scarf to support the members of the Russian punk band, in Brussels on Sunday Feb. 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert) (credit:AP)
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In this Aug. 17, 2012 file photo, feminist punk group Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova sits in a glass enclosure at a court in Moscow, Russia. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze, File) (credit:AP)
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Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, a member of the feminist punk band, Pussy Riot, listens from behind bars at a district court in Saransk on Friday, July 26, 2013. (AP Photo) (credit:AP)
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Member of the Pussy Riot punk band Yekaterina Samutsevich, in front of the Christ the Savior Cathedral, a year after their performance, in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev) (credit:AP)
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In this Friday, April 26, 2013 file photo, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, a member of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot, listens from behind bars at a district court in Zubova Polyana, 440 kilometers (273 miles) southeast of Moscow, in Russia's province of Mordovia. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel, file) (credit:AP)
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Headlights (L) and Puck (R) from 'Pussy Riot' speak at 'Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer' at Landmark's Sunshine Cinema on June 5, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Amnesty International members hold their hand knitted Pussy Riot fan scarfs to support the members of the Russian punk band, in Brussels on Sunday Feb. 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert) (credit:AP)
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In this Feb. 21, 2012 file photo, members of the Russian radical feminist group Pussy Riot try to perform at the Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev, File) (credit:AP)
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Member of the Pussy Riot punk band Yekaterina Samutsevich smiles as she attends a session at the Moscow City Court where she is appealing to overturn a court's decision to ban the video of the band's "punk prayer" in Moscow's main cathedral as "extremist", Russia, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze) (credit:AP)
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In this Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013 file photo, jailed feminist punk band Pussy Riot member Maria Alekhina in a court room in the town of Berezniki, some 1500 km (940 miles) north-east of Moscow, Russia. (AP Photo/Alexander Agafonov, File) (credit:AP)
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Jailed feminist punk band Pussy Riot member Maria Alekhina is seen in a cell at a court room in the town of Berezniki, some 1500 km (940 miles) north-east of Moscow, Russia, on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander Agafonov) (credit:AP)
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Jailed feminist punk band Pussy Riot member Maria Alekhina, center, is escorted to a court room in the town of Berezniki, some 1500 km (940 miles) north-east of Moscow, Russia, on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander Agafonov) (credit:AP)
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Headlights from 'Pussy Riot' speaks at the Q & A of 'Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer' at Landmark's Sunshine Cinema on June 5, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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