A new TV series about the punk feminist activist group Pussy Riot is in the development stage. The co-founder of Pussy Riotmusician and political activist Nadia Tolokonnikova has reportedly reached a deal with STX Entertainment to develop the series, which will be based on her upcoming memoir.

According to a report by Deadline Hollywood, Nadia Tolokoninova announced in a press release her intentions regarding the production of the series, expressing the ambition to “inspire a new generation of revolutionaries.”

“I was a 20-year-old penniless artist studying philosophy, he was one of the most powerful, richest and most dangerous people on Earth,” she said. “In 2011 I went against him with terrible consequences. After years of imprisonment, harassment, assault, trauma, I am ready to share this story“, explained.

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“Today I am on Russia’s most wanted list, classified as a foreign agent and recently arrested in absentia by a Russian court,” he continued. “My relatives were poisoned, my government wants me dead, but I don’t regret anything. If the story of Pussy Riot can inspire a new generation of revolutionaries, it was not in vainhe emphasized.

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According to a press release, the upcoming series will “explore the story of a young Siberian girl who takes on the world’s most powerful dictator – the origins and creation of the artist collective, the actions of Nadia and her young associates against him Vladimir Putin in Moscow, their arrest after the famous ‘Punk Prayer’ action, their trial, conviction and prison sentence and their protests at the Sochi Olympics after their release.