Welcome to Hard Talk on the BBC World Service with me, Stephen Sacker. My guest today is barely in her 30s,

but has already experienced more drama, controversy, fear and suffering than most of us could bear in a lifetime.

Nadia Toler Konnikova was still in her teens when she joined the radical art collective

Voina and shocked Russia by staging a show of public sex at a Moscow museum.

Four years later, and having given birth to a daughter, Nadia was one of the founder members

of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot, whose most infamous performance was inside the

Orthodox Cathedral next to the Kremlin. Their rendition of the song Mother of God cast Putin out

in 2012 was silenced by a swarm of policemen, but it reverberated around Russia and the world.

Nadia served almost two years in a women's prison convicted of hooliganism.

Since then, she's remained a radical activist, a campaigner for prison and judicial reform,

and a member of the Pussy Riot Collective.

She is a fierce opponent of President Putin and his

strongman authoritarian style. But to little avail inside Russia. Mr. Putin has just successfully

engineered a change in the Russian constitution to make it possible for him to rule Russia

until 2036 should he seek to do so.

So what, if anything, can stir Russians to rebel?

Well, Nadia Tolokonikova joins me now.

Welcome to Hard Talk.

To nobody's surprise at all, Vladimir Putin appears to have got the approval of the Russian people

for the new constitutional arrangement, which could, in theory, see him be the elected president of Russia

all the way through to 2036.

What is your reaction to that?

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