 The connection between Pussy Riot and the political performance art group Voina has been highlighted by some of the group 's critics , and was called an " aggravating moral circumstance " in the eyes of the conservative public ( which constitutes about 60 per cent of Russians ) . Pussy Riot members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Yekaterina Samutsevich were members of Voina from 2007 until the group split in 2009 , and participated in a number of Voina 's provocative art performances . 
