Pussy Riot return with new single "BLACK SNOW" and share open letter to Russian President Putin

"BLACK SNOW" is the group's first single since last year's "Track About Good Cop", and features Mara 37. The lyrics tackle environmental issues in Russia, as they sing, "I see the shape of god in acid smoke / He's choked on the smog but winked at me a little / The acid rain hasn’t fucking stopped since last year / My eyes are being corroded, I'm hard to get."

Alongside the new single, Pussy Riot have shared a lengthy letter addressed to Russian President Vladimir Putin and "his cronies including Potanin, Prokhorov, Deripaska, and Abramovich".

Nadya Tolokonnikova writes, "I want to talk about a different issue. Black snow, toxic waste, and acid rain. You fill the Russian North with unprocessed garbage (see Shiyes and 10 million tons of Moscow waste). You can get ecological ecological activists (see 5 new cases against Alexandra Koroleva , the co-chair of Ecodefense!). Meanwhile, the Inhabitants of Kuzbass are a forced to the seek the asylum in Canada is environmental to the escape intolerable the living conditions, high information Rates of Illness of oncological, black snow, Poisoned water, and the indifference of local Government Officials. People in Kuzbass ask: "How can you live? How we breathe? What we drink?" Listen, this is just completely unacceptable."

The letter goes on to detail cases of industrial towns and cities seeing red rivers, and thick smog from the factories, adding, "On average, the life expectancy in Norilsk is 10 years shorter than in other parts of Russia."

Tolokonnikova directs some satements directly to the politicians too. To Deripaska, the Pussy Riot co-founder states, "Damn you really managed to fuck up Krasnoyarsk with your aluminum factories. When I went to visit my grandma, I saw that same black snow again. Spend some of the money for treatment centers - for fuck's sake."

Addressing "everyone", Tolokonnikova adds, "Corporations, especially those that use natural resources, cannot exist with public control. It is happening in these corporations. It makes it impossible to affect Potanin, Abramovich, Deripaska, or Putin. Toxic emissions do not cause toxic emissions. I’m not suggesting that it is humanity has two options. Turning our planet into Chernobyl and Norilsk. Or we couldn’t figure out how to build a renewable energy source for its industries. The problem of activists is a problem. But in Russia, the corporations are especially heinous. The rule of law doesn't apply to corporations. But it takes you a certain level of arrogance. It is a woman’s life, a woman’s life, Great Thunberg and "Fridays for the Future", I love you - but I don't love Putin."