 Tolokonnikova , Alyokhina , and three unidentified women planned to perform a song called " Putin Will Teach You to Love the Motherland " as Pussy Riot during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi . The action was supposed to be concerned with the prisoners in the Bolotnaya Square case , corrupt Olympic officials , the plight of the arrested environmentalist Yevgeny Vitishko and suppressed freedoms in Russia . On February 18 , 2014 they were detained in Sochi together with a group of 12 @-@ 15 people including Yevgeny Feldman , a Novaya Gazeta journalist . The authorities explained that the arrest was in connection with a theft at a hotel in Sochi . In a few hours they were released from an Adler police station . According to BBC correspondent Rafael Saakov the five women left the police station in balaclavas singing their song " Putin Will Teach You to Love the Motherland " on the streets of Adler . 
