Can They Live: Russian Women Arrested for Twerking Near Memorial

Russian women were sentence to jail time for twerking next to a war memorial.

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Three women have been arrested and sentenced to time in jail in southern Russian after Russian authorities investigated a music video of a group of women twerking next to a World War II memorial.

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The AP reports this story, with the best definition of "twerking" we've seen in a while:


The sentencing in the Novorossiysk district court of a 19-year-old woman to 15 days in jail and two women in their 20s to 10 days comes after prosecutors launched a probe into a video showing a group of women twerking next to the memorial on the Black Sea. Twerking is a sexually provocative dance involving thrusting of the hips.


Prosecutors said in a statement Saturday that five women were found guilty of "hooliganism" and two of them were spared jail because of poor health. Hooliganism is the charge that sent two members of punk band Pussy Riot to prison for two years for an impromptu protest at Moscow's main cathedral in 2012.

Russian authorities have their hands busy with catching all the wrongful acts of twerking in the motherland—just this month, they investigated a video of local schoolg girls twerking with the Russian version of Winnie the Pooh. The Washington Post wonders if the women, who were dressed like bees, were actually sporting the colors of the opposition. No, for real

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