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Pussy Riot On NMPBS: Death Happens, Ideas Cannot Die

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The Russian punk band and art collective Pussy Riot brought their Revolution tour to Albuquerque in March. One of their original members stopped by the studios at New Mexico PBS to talk about the group’s work opposing war and oppression.

Megan Kamerick asked Maria Alyokhina about the atmosphere for artists, writers and dissidents in Russia right now.

See the full interview on Colores!, Saturday afternoon at 4:00 p.m. on New Mexico PBS. 

Megan has been a journalist for 25 years and worked at business weeklies in San Antonio, New Orleans and Albuquerque. She first came to KUNM as a phone volunteer on the pledge drive in 2005. That led to volunteering on Women’s Focus, Weekend Edition and the Global Music Show. She was then hired as Morning Edition host in 2015, then the All Things Considered host in 2018. Megan was hired as News Director in 2021.