Pussy Riot released a new sin­gle called Putin Lights Up the Fires. The Guardian has edited the new song to a mon­tage of Pussy Riot mem­bers and their supporters.

On the same day that a top court banned gay pride marches in Moscow for the next 100 years, three young mem­bers of the punk band Pussy Riot were sen­tenced to two years in a penal colony. Their crime?  Stag­ing an anti Putin protest on the altar of the Cathe­dral of Christ the Sav­ior in Moscow. Not par­tic­u­larly a good day for the free­dom of expres­sion in Russia.

Protests sup­port­ing Pussy Riot were held in 60 cities world­wide (includ­ing one in the cap­i­tal where chess cham­pion Garry Kas­parov was beaten by police); West­ern gov­ern­ments called the sen­tence dis­pro­por­tion­ate; and already the band has released a new sin­gle called “Putin Lights Up the Fires.”

Pussy Riot’s sup­port­ers and oppo­si­tion activists accused Putin of per­son­ally orches­trat­ing the case against them. “They are in jail because it is Putin’s per­sonal revenge,” said Alexey Navalny, the opposition’s de facto leader. “The ver­dict was writ­ten by Vladimir Putin.”

The case against them is seen as serv­ing two func­tions: a warn­ing to other dis­si­dents, and an appeal to Putin’s con­ser­v­a­tive base. Russia’s grow­ing cam­paign against gay rights is seen as a part of that effort.

Google trans­la­tion of the lyrics into English.

‘Putin Lit Fires’

State more time in prison
The more arrests — more hap­pi­ness
And every arrest — with a love of sex­ist
After swing­ing his cheeks, as the chest and abdomen

But we can not be resealed in the box
Secu­rity offi­cers over­threw the bet­ter and more

Putin ignites the fires of rev­o­lu­tion
He was bored and fright­ened peo­ple in the silence
What­ever pun­ish­ment he had — that rot­ten ash,
With no time in many years — the sub­ject for wet dreams

Cho­rus.
The coun­try is, the coun­try goes to the streets with audac­ity
The coun­try is, the coun­try is going to say good­bye to the regime,
The coun­try is, the coun­try is a wedge of fem­i­nist
And Putin is Putin goes, leave cattle

Arrested on May 6 the whole city
7 years we have lit­tle, give me 18
The ban yelling, slan­der, and walk,
Take his wife’s dad Lukashenko