![]() ![]() One of them was dressed up in a purple chicken costume. ![]() In surreal scenes, the men waved raw chickens as the Pussy Riot women spoke, and shouted "We like sex with chickens" in English for the duration of the meeting. On Thursday, the women were again followed by more than a dozen plainclothes officers, filming and keeping watch, as well as a group of young people who attempted to disrupt the women's press conference. The governor of the Krasnodar region apologised for the actions of the Cossacks, who are being used as informal security at the Olympics, but the presence of many plainclothes security officers suggested their actions were sanctioned. Much of the new video shows the women being manhandled by police and whipped by Cossacks instead of leaving them to jump around unmolested, the authorities provided a striking visual illustration of the sentiment in the lyrics. ![]() It was hard not to feel the Russian authorities have played into the hands of the women. ![]() They claimed every hotel they had called to arrange a press conference had turned them down, except the Golden Dolphin, which then called them two hours before and cancelled the event. They held their press conference outside the Golden Dolphin hotel, a few miles from the venues of the Winter Olympics. ![]()
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