Pussy Riot Skirmishes With...Cossacks!?

Yes.  Cossacks.  I had no idea they were still around -- the last Cossack I saw before this was Captain Kazan, played by Telly Savalas in Horror Express -- but it looks like they are now policing the Olympics at Sochi, and who ran afoul of them but our best girlfriends, Pussy Riot.  Someone took exception to their performance, and all heck broke loose for a couple of minutes as ski masks were ripped off and a guitar was shoved into a trash barrel.

 

I have to admire the bloody-mindedness of Pussy Riot, who responded to release from prison by going right back to what they were doing that got them arrested in the first place -- irritating Vladimir Putin. 

 

But if Putin is still using the Cossacks as his shock troops, almost 100 years after the fall of the

tsars, who's really the bloody-minded one here?