‘My fear was too great’: the Pussy Riot member recruited by Russian spies to inform on fellow activists

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  ‘My fear was too great’: the Pussy Riot member recruited by Russian spies to inform on fellow activists

  <p>Exclusive: In her first media interview since fleeing Russia, Rita Flores describes her three years of being run by the FSB</p><p>First came the blackmail and death threats to secure cooperation, then came a series of tasks, each more sinister than the last: to inform on fellow activists, to elicit personal information from protest-minded artists and – eventually – to help with a plot to kidnap and murder a Kremlin enemy.</p><p>That is how Rita Flores, a 29-year-old Russian artist, activist and former member of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/pussy-riot">the Pussy Riot collective</a>, described her recruitment and three-year handling by officers from Russia’s FSB security service, a cooperation she only broke when she fled the country last month.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/19/pussy-riot-russian-spies-fsb-activists-rita-flores">Continue reading...</a>

  Sat, 19 Sep 2026 04:00:36 GMT

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1. 2026-09-19 04:00The Guardian — ‘My fear was too great’: the Pussy Riot member recruited by Russian spies to inform on fellow activists