Masked Russian punk feminist collective Pussy Riot staged a protest at the Manhattan offices of tech company Ubiquiti on Friday (March 27) over their claims that the company’s Wi-Fi equipment is being used by Russian soldiers in their ongoing war against Ukraine.
Group founder Nadya Tolokonnikova posted a video statement over the weekend in which she said that the Russian military is allegedly using Ubiquiti to communicate with front line troops. In the clip, she talks in voice-over about the company she claims “powers Russian war crimes” over footage of three PR members in all black wearing pink balaclavas with x’d out eyes holding a sign that features that same provocative phrase.
“Last month when Starlink was turned off, Russian guys went crazy,” she said in reference to former DOGE boss Elon Musk’s move in February to cut Russian forces’ access to his Starlink satellite service in order to give Ukrainian fighters an edge in the grinding four-year war. She jokingly said that the Russian fighters scrambled for an alternative, suggesting they were considering using doves to carry their messages. At press time a spokesperson for Ubiquiti had not returned Billboard‘s request for comment.
Tolokonnikova said in the time since, Russian soldiers have begun using Ubiquiti products, and she then appeared to provide proof in the form of images of masked Russian soldiers standing in front of what she said were Ubiquiti satellite dishes and equipment. “Since the disabling of Starlink, Russian soldiers been panicking: ‘All we’ve got left now are radios, cables and pigeons.’ But Ubiquiti’s hardware has emerged as the favorite replacement,” read the caption to the video, which demanded that Ubiquiti obey U.S. sanctions against providing help to the Russian cause, acknowledge that their equipment is being used by Russian forces and work with Ukraine to stop its use.
Members of Pussy Riot gathered outside Ubiquiti’s Manhattan offices on Friday to protest and deliver their list of demands. Hours after their action, they wrote that the company appeared to respond in the form of a message from payment processing partner Square, which informed PR that its Square account had been deactivated. “So, @Ubiquiti responded to our action. A few hours after we showed up at their headquarters in Manhattan, @Square – Ubiquiti’s partner company – deactivated the account we use to sell T-shirts at our gigs,” they wrote in a caption to an X post featured what appeared to be the notice from Square. “Going after Russian feminist activists in exile, but not after Russian war criminals. Cringe.”
According to the Kyiv Post, Ukrainian forces made their most significant territorial gains in more than two years in February after Russian troops lost access to the Starlink satellite system, disrupting their battlefield communication and coordination and cutting off access to real-time battlefield video and secure communications.
Pussy Riot have been a thorn in the Russian dictatorship’s side since their 2012 “A Punk Prayer” protest, which resulted in members Tolokonnikova — who was added to Russia’s most wanted list in 2023 — and Alyokhina being briefly imprisoned. They’ve since staged a number of other protests, including at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics in Russia, as well as a field invasion during the 2018 World Cup Finals and a “celebration” of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s 68th birthday in October 2020 in which they hoisted rainbow LGBTQ pride flags outside government buildings in Moscow in protest of the Russian government’s continued denial of LGBTQ rights. In 2023, the collective received the Woody Guthrie prize for their fight for freedom and justice.
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