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Pussy Riot’s Powerful Message to Vladimir Putin | Nadya Tolokonnikova | TED

Nadya Tolokonnikova, founding member of the anti-Putin resistance group Pussy Riot, was named a top enemy of Russia for speaking out against Vladimir Putin’s dictatorship throughout the last decade. In this inspiring talk, she tells the story of her imprisonment and exile, shares what motivates her resistance and delivers a powerful message to Putin himself.…

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Nadya Tolokonnikova, founding member of the anti-Putin resistance group Pussy Riot, was named a top enemy of Russia for speaking out against Vladimir Putin’s dictatorship throughout the last decade. In this inspiring talk, she tells the story of her imprisonment and exile, shares what motivates her resistance and delivers a powerful message to Putin himself.

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  1. Mit Shah

    April 26, 2023 at 5:23 pm

    What about Iran, Iraq and Vietnam and War crimes of America in those countries !

    • Ellarniya

      April 26, 2023 at 8:14 pm

      They usually say those are different…

  2. Notes from the Underground

    April 26, 2023 at 5:31 pm

    An outstanding and courageous person. She should be a model for all young people

  3. David Hahn

    April 26, 2023 at 5:49 pm

    Brava! Words of a true hero!

  4. Lulu Fulu

    April 26, 2023 at 5:52 pm

    Passion, openness and innocence, not naivety. The young are innocent, not naive, because they have not been corrupted by consciousness. You are a ship at sea, an innocent who refused to turn from your instinctive self (truth) at adolescence. We can all see this truth and innocence in the young, yet we continue to ignore what happens to us at adolescence, when we are forced to choose between staying innocent or becoming corrupted. The young question constantly, the answers given by adults don’t make sense, some just accept the nonsense, others keep questioning, refusing to give over, this road is the hardest. Thank you for staying in your own lane, the cost has been immense to you, as it is to all who take this road. Your instincts to truth and innocence, that we are all born with, are intact. Your spirit is indominatable, all the women who have come before you and suffered, which is most of us, are with you.

  5. AlisaMontego

    April 26, 2023 at 6:18 pm

    I don’t understand…Is it courage for you? They performed an inappropriate song about killing a person in a CHURCH. This place is really sacred for lots of ordinary religious people! Would YOU like if someone desecrate smth important for you?
    If you want to make the world a better place you can volunteer and help people as much as you can instead of showing off your juvenile manner.
    I don’t tell that everything’s fine in Russia or the current events but I think that such an expression of opinion is inappropriate in any case.

    • Ellarniya

      April 26, 2023 at 8:13 pm

      Oh, your voice is a voice of wisdom. Reading comments I was so disappointed. What is going on in that works? People don’t know this person and her real acting for freedom. She did nothing. Nothing except that disgusting performance in a Church.

  6. George Harold

    April 26, 2023 at 6:31 pm

    I listened to some of their music. Mid af

  7. Jeffrey Ackerman

    April 26, 2023 at 6:31 pm

    Thank you for this very moving, heroic, and loving message.

  8. landofthelivingskies

    April 26, 2023 at 6:58 pm

    Putin has put chains and locks on Russia’s democracy. The Putin regime is darkness and democracy is light. The light is hope. And hope lives in the Russian people. And no regime can take that away.

  9. Stephen Armiger

    April 26, 2023 at 7:38 pm

    Thank you Nadya.

  10. Sag Norm

    April 26, 2023 at 7:47 pm

    So you come on this stage to support a proxy war? At this point you are just being a useful idiot for USA. Russia is not gonna be defeated without massive devastation for the country of Ukraine.

    The only way to save Ukraine is to ask the USA to accept a peace treaty. But unfortunately, the USA wants Russia to lose this proxy war even if it means Ukraine is completely obliterated.

  11. Elbek Abdusaidov

    April 26, 2023 at 7:53 pm

    Since when Onlyfans girl is in TEDx

  12. parkadiy

    April 26, 2023 at 8:07 pm

    к сожалению он тебя не услышит и даже не узнает, что кто-то, где-то там что-то произносил, а тот кого он услышал, сел в ИК на 9 лет и еще сверху тридцатку хотят накинуть

  13. RR 1976

    April 26, 2023 at 8:36 pm

    Putin must be removed and tried for his crimes, and Nadya should be the one to issue his sentence.

  14. Brother Nobody

    April 26, 2023 at 8:37 pm

    🤘❤️‍🔥 Heroes are made from the plans of bad leadership, thank you for choosing to become one.

  15. ThePessimist

    April 26, 2023 at 8:44 pm

    Long live USA, NATO and capitalism!

  16. Crime ≠ Politics

    April 26, 2023 at 8:46 pm

    @TED Are you serious?

  17. chan yuan

    April 26, 2023 at 8:53 pm

    😅Why do you talk about politics? Putin is a good man. The content of this issue is not good ❌ and even disgusted.

  18. chan yuan

    April 26, 2023 at 8:55 pm

    I dare to ask, will TED still invite the terrorists of that kind of country, the so-called freedom fighters, to give speeches in the future?

  19. propius ad veritatum Dei

    April 26, 2023 at 8:55 pm

    I love humanity, but man do I ever dislike the absurd brutality we put ourselves through. We shouldn’t have to be dealing with cluster B tyrants like Putin in 2023. War is the ego of man; since absolute power corrupts absolutely. When will we learn?

  20. Ciro Di Rosa

    April 26, 2023 at 9:02 pm

    It’s so refreshing to see someone so genuine.

    It is a shame that genuineness and politics never mix.

  21. AB

    April 26, 2023 at 9:08 pm

    Insane premise

  22. The Anh

    April 26, 2023 at 9:18 pm

    she is a courageous women . She just live a quite life with her friends . Respect .

  23. anealacme

    April 26, 2023 at 9:25 pm

    Seriously with all that nails, hair, lips, chains. At least for ted talk look presentable. This is not Love Island.

  24. Papiti

    April 26, 2023 at 9:26 pm

    That’s the kind of Russian woman the Russian people should be proud of.

  25. Yves Arsenault

    April 27, 2023 at 11:46 am

    Nadya is the face of courage, as much as a human can be.

    • Me MyselfandI

      April 27, 2023 at 7:35 pm

      Stunning and brave indeed.

  26. Осипов Никита

    April 27, 2023 at 12:38 pm

    She is the baddest speaker that we should to hear she just is provoker not anythintg else!

  27. Rajan Acharya

    April 27, 2023 at 12:41 pm

    So sad to see TED allowing someone with clear political propagandist agenda to give a keynote. TED has now truly lost it’s political balance.

  28. Scooby_doo

    April 27, 2023 at 12:42 pm

    I fully support Ukraine and feel no sorrow for russians. This woman is a narcissistic attention seeker. The way she’s speaking, it looks like an act, I see nothing genuine here 😒

  29. Александр Иваноа

    April 27, 2023 at 1:01 pm

    dog in the court room? bullshit

  30. jeremy rabbitskin

    April 27, 2023 at 1:09 pm

    With a name like that i will not hear the message

  31. Syloson Cloak

    April 27, 2023 at 1:50 pm

    Put her back in jail

  32. Val Farruggia

    April 27, 2023 at 2:14 pm

    Respect.

  33. Елена Воронина

    April 27, 2023 at 2:25 pm

    Так и хочется закричать, смотря это видео: “Спасите нас от Путина!!!” ))))
    Но это смешно, правда.
    Это самое глупое, что я когда либо видела и слушала.
    Надя, читай больше: я тебе подарю Толстого, Достоевского, Гоголя. Напиши!

  34. Флех от TP-L

    April 27, 2023 at 2:29 pm

    Fem scum can’t recognize she’s a fem scum during 13 minutes

  35. sverkhchelovek

    April 27, 2023 at 2:47 pm

    I kind of support her but she exchanged punk-rock for tastleless onlyfans. She is living her best life, good for her but this message is not for russian society or russian athorities. It’s for western authorities to tell them “look, I am still here and I am against Putin”.

  36. Oussama Djaalali

    April 27, 2023 at 3:13 pm

    I thought these girls were only taking a part in The House of Cards, I didn’t know it is happening in reality 😅

  37. Prometheus

    April 27, 2023 at 3:26 pm

    Another failed Onlyfans model which is desperately trying to get the attention of the media. You and your friends were sentenced to jail not because of speaking against the Putin’s regime but for your group’s nude dancing inside the church, which is disrespectful and not ethical even for non religious people. Be thankful that you didn’t do this in Saudi Arabia as they would chop your head right away in public if you had done the same in their mosque. I’m not a Russian, and nor pro Putin either. It just seems more politically motivated TED talk than just a random motivational speech.

  38. Pavel Prokhnenko

    April 27, 2023 at 3:44 pm

    The “resistance” didn’t have an impact, but the woman is now preached as some kind of hero, while the full scale invasion goes right now in Ukraine. Heroes die right now, at the frontiers. There shouldn’t be a place for russian movements, resistance couldn’t be a choice for an imperialistic and chauvinistic nation.

  39. Max Peterson

    April 27, 2023 at 4:01 pm

    So bold and touching speech. I’m crying) Freedom to politic prisoners

  40. Ronald Ronald

    April 27, 2023 at 4:18 pm

    May the brave spirit of this brave women inspire the Russian people to rid them self’s of their corrupt regime.

  41. P

    April 27, 2023 at 4:50 pm

    Nadya, you are inspiring. Take care you lovely person.

  42. Андрей Васьков

    April 27, 2023 at 5:13 pm

    Very strange behaviour. Watch her interview in Russian. “Please stand” in the beginning was artificial and ridiculous

  43. Elizabeth Allancorte

    April 27, 2023 at 5:13 pm

    AWESOME TALK!

  44. AJlex Alex

    April 27, 2023 at 5:58 pm

    You should know only 2 things:
    1. All russists are always lie to you.
    2. All russians that are fighting against the regime are in the Ukrainian army or dead.

  45. Sam Hatzis

    April 27, 2023 at 6:15 pm

    The little man caged in his ivory tower, gold.

  46. AnaRomello

    April 27, 2023 at 7:40 pm

    This woman and her group would target churches, dance naked in them and act out lewd behaviour. They’re not freedom fighters. They’re obnoxious, disrespectful creeps.

  47. hwoarang2001

    April 27, 2023 at 8:27 pm

    Back to reeducation camp for her and pals. Looks like a Gopnista, but is a poser.

  48. eMom

    April 27, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    Thank you Nadia, for your courage and example.

  49. Alexandru-Mihaita Manea

    April 27, 2023 at 9:20 pm

    It’s allright.
    But America is more dangerous.
    Political system is this way.
    Understand, you ar going down for an American undercover very powerfull Sistem of Totalitarism.
    The danger is : power stays the same.
    But undercover is more dangerous.
    You know ?
    Try to make business with BAC or bank. Of America.
    You risk your life on that level.
    The Piramid on dollar is an undercover , future sign of … you are an idiot anyway.
    Putin or America/ power is power.
    Got my point and you realize you don’t change the nature of power.
    A future idiot.
    But America is more dangerous this way.
    The truth is …

  50. Salt Spring Design

    April 27, 2023 at 11:07 pm

    Nadya is seriously my favourite human on earth. She is AMAZING!!!. The pen really is mightier than the sword.

  51. Sanzhar Baiseitov

    April 27, 2023 at 11:09 pm

    Glory to Ukraine! and hopefully realization of their deeds and freedom to russia

  52. Elliot Polanco

    April 27, 2023 at 11:20 pm

    Why aren’t these witches burned?

  53. mad max

    April 28, 2023 at 12:39 am

    Stop giving a platfom to narcissists

  54. Claudio Ortiz

    April 28, 2023 at 1:06 am

    Hey TED, do one about the khazarian mafia.

  55. Gali Green

    April 28, 2023 at 2:35 am

    Such a brave girl! Real inspiration!!

  56. No longer

    April 28, 2023 at 3:11 am

    Uh huh. Powerful msg. Soooo. Did the target got those msg? Or the target more into whatever they doing than send a second to care about one in billions of those msg.

  57. Mrstudmad

    April 28, 2023 at 3:44 am

    Interesting, we have never heard any such TEDs to describe the stories of Palestinians which 100x more painful…
    Freedom and justice you said!

    • Mauna Music

      April 28, 2023 at 5:25 am

      😅😅😅

    • Sonia Mishra

      April 28, 2023 at 2:33 pm

      It’s heartbreaking what’s happenin in Palestine, but dismissing what’s possible/chosen to be presented isn’t the solution

  58. Olesya Bordyuzha

    April 28, 2023 at 5:03 am

    Seriously?? Giving the platform to an absolute nitwit and claiming it’s a powerful message? What? Have people entirely lost the ability to use their critical and analytical thinking? Goodness me….
    But I guess in the West this will do as long as someone positions themselves as “against Putin”. Tolkonnikova has ZERO respect in Russia because we’ve seen her deeds and heard her speak. But hey – she’s anti-Putin, and I guess for TED that’s all that matters now. Oh well.

    • Антон Маринин

      April 28, 2023 at 6:50 am

      Совершено верно

  59. Mohamad HassaN

    April 28, 2023 at 5:33 am

    hypocrisy

  60. K2T4

    April 28, 2023 at 5:39 am

    ah

  61. ßpęřm

    April 28, 2023 at 6:16 am

    Why is it that one man can yield so much power that the super majority 99.999999% of a country does not believe they can stop the 1 man?😅 I think the reason is Lack of Unity. Eg. Europe. France sees the short term economic benefits and decided to break the Unity. Imagine , if European countries all follow suit, there will be no NATO or only a weak NATO . What if Russia then Invades another European country? Macron is macaroni😅

  62. Makesi

    April 28, 2023 at 6:20 am

    Another consent manufacturing video

  63. Fabio Cossa

    April 28, 2023 at 6:20 am

    Thanks for the whole real humanity – greetings from Italy

  64. Эльдар Порядок

    April 28, 2023 at 6:25 am

    the cheap girl who danced in church, insulted religion now talks about god, how funny
    and what a meaningful speech! the level of the Reddit npcs who will be eating this

    • andrew

      April 29, 2023 at 3:45 am

      but not a hypocrite who says that killing is good

    • Эльдар Порядок

      April 29, 2023 at 3:57 am

      @andrew and the one who says that killing is good now in the same room with you?

    • andrew

      April 29, 2023 at 4:21 am

      @Эльдар Порядок в телеке

    • Эльдар Порядок

      April 29, 2023 at 4:33 am

      @andrew хрюкни

    • andrew

      April 29, 2023 at 5:55 am

      @Эльдар Порядок зигани

  65. EVRTHNGRT

    April 28, 2023 at 9:30 am

    Men got glued to seats after this

  66. R-802

    April 28, 2023 at 11:09 am

    How could you expect to be taken seriously with a name like that?

  67. SRB

    April 28, 2023 at 11:51 am

    As if other countries like the so called “The Oldest Democracy” is ruled by the elected president & not by the Pentagon or other large MNCs which provide millions of fundings.

  68. NJ5810

    April 28, 2023 at 12:27 pm

    Надя💛✊🏻

  69. Lalo

    April 28, 2023 at 12:54 pm

    Nobody cares

  70. Oxndv Vfkuhl

    April 28, 2023 at 1:21 pm

    Is this Riot from league of legends?

  71. We_Waz_Kangz🇷🇺

    April 28, 2023 at 2:40 pm

    Stunning and brave
    🤡🤡🤡

  72. Miguel Ramalho

    April 28, 2023 at 4:52 pm

    Which country is she doing this talk from?

  73. cheri lynn fisher

    April 28, 2023 at 8:02 pm

    POWERFUL! THIS!

  74. Rick Gaye

    April 29, 2023 at 2:56 am

    Proud of such people. Russia will be free

  75. Boris Zhitkov

    April 29, 2023 at 5:09 am

    Is it Julian Assange? I lost my glasses, sorry.

  76. who

    April 29, 2023 at 6:35 am

    ❤❤❤

  77. Den SPb

    April 29, 2023 at 7:19 am

    A. D. I. D. A. S. !

  78. Dead Inside

    April 29, 2023 at 7:52 am

    I hardly hope that we we’ll be blessed by sth and all of this… will be definately changed as a wind of light spring

    the speech is super powerful, really inspired on actions that can affect on our reality salutary

  79. Rahmani Mounir

    April 29, 2023 at 8:08 am

    Hypocrisy and west Propaganda

  80. electro1622

    April 29, 2023 at 8:39 am

    LOL.. a washed up lesbian talking about how she was arrested, beaten in public and jailed and making out like she won… but is now living out of Russia… that means she lost.. she was jailed and deported.. if she won she would still be there stirring things up but she’s not.

  81. Edmundo Olinda

    April 29, 2023 at 10:06 am

    More people like that in Russia and they would be free.

  82. Михаил Папушенко

    April 29, 2023 at 11:48 am

    It’s really pitty, that nowadays even such channels as TED is trying to lace the developing and learning content with politics, especially when we see such a poor representative of so-called “opponents of regime” that made to say what they are saying by “loaded investors” who just want push and spread their interests, please be smart and don’t be blind, propaganda such as this is ruining world and people consciousness all over the world even harder than that she is talking about, try to resist deception

  83. 42alastor

    April 29, 2023 at 12:21 pm

  84. Rob Miller

    April 29, 2023 at 12:42 pm

    These girls are crazy brave. Who says Woman can’t be heroes ❤

  85. Cherish The Moment

    April 29, 2023 at 4:44 pm

    What an amazing soul this lady is.

    • Cherish The Moment

      April 30, 2023 at 4:39 pm

      @Holden Parker Sure, maybe in your eyes….

    • Holden Parker

      April 30, 2023 at 5:31 pm

      @Cherish The Moment so you think this text is written by herself and she came to TED platform herself lol? There is no team, no producer? How old are you, 10?

    • Cherish The Moment

      April 30, 2023 at 5:34 pm

      @Holden Parker 5

    • Holden Parker

      April 30, 2023 at 5:46 pm

      @Cherish The Moment where are you parents

    • Александр Копотилов

      April 30, 2023 at 6:30 pm

      Google “толоконникова за наследника медвежонка” and see her soul. Lol, do the math first, she is professional scandal-maker

  86. UH HUH

    April 29, 2023 at 4:54 pm

    this literally is not a “direct” message to the guy

  87. eb eb

    April 29, 2023 at 8:54 pm

    Indeed very powerfull message, if whole western propaganda apparatus stand behind you.
    This girls did whole carier based on provocative performance inside church.
    “And live this horror trouh to come and tell you the real story” on TED, omfg, this world is beyound saving

  88. Holden Parker

    April 29, 2023 at 9:54 pm

    The moment she says it “she is on our side”, I bet she repeated it too many times in front of mirror and she is goddamn proud for herself saying this line😂

  89. Elon Musk2

    April 29, 2023 at 9:55 pm

    please if you are able change your name 🙏 😆

  90. Oleg Loginov

    April 30, 2023 at 12:53 am

    This has to be a joke. Please tell me TED didn’t actually invite them😮

    • Александр Копотилов

      April 30, 2023 at 6:28 pm

      Disappointment of the year

  91. D VV I N E V E R

    April 30, 2023 at 3:12 pm

    This oppression and inhumanity will pass and these relics will fade away from this world, bringing about a new spring of freedom. May those who fight for truth, freedom and true justice take the reins away from dictators and authoritarians that only fight for their own power and wealth by sacrificing others. Those cruel and vile rulers who take freedoms and lives of innocents deserve no legacy but disdain, and no peace at the end of their days.

  92. Jerome Damian

    April 30, 2023 at 3:20 pm

    Ive witnessed over the years p**** Riot actions trying to make a difference in Russia and watch the abuse of power by the police in military physically attack them on the streets . That girl and many other people believe in changing Russia , super brave individuals . Nothing but respect for there actions.

  93. Максим Хасков

    April 30, 2023 at 5:52 pm

    Such a funny girl😂 She told about handcuffed with so serious face to people whose military created Abu Ghraib prison, where prisones have been constantly tortured not only by simple handcuffed, but by rape, physical abuse and so on.

  94. Jim Flynn

    April 30, 2023 at 7:57 pm

    Hard to take a group seriously with a name like that.

  95. igor known

    April 30, 2023 at 8:06 pm

    incredible artist. there’s hope 💕

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