“Besides Russia it is only in Hungary that I met people who still thought we had danced naked in a church.

This is not so; even our heads were masked,” Tolokonnikova said, adding that one did not need to be naked to carry out radical political action.

She said she had studied to be a journalist but because of heavy censorship in the media she chose art instead.

Pyotr Verzilov, a Russian-Canadian artist and activist who is married to Tolokonnikova, said the group decided to take the path of political activism, insisting there is no independent media in Russia and the opposition is in disarray.

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