 Their first public performance as members of Pussy Riot was in November 2011 . Several masked women performed " Osvobodi Bruschatku " ( " Release the Cobblestones " ) atop a scaffold in a Moscow subway and from the top of trolley cars , while tearing apart down feather pillows , showering feathers onto the train platform below . The song recommends that Russians protest upcoming parliamentary elections , by throwing cobblestones during street clashes . " Your ballots will be used as toilet paper by the Presidential Administration " , the group said on its blog . Their first video was uploaded to YouTube on November 6 . The musical track once again used extensive sampling , this time from the Angelic Upstarts ' 1978 recording " Police Oppression " . The video of the performance quickly went viral and generated a flurry of interest from the Russian press . 
