Pussy Riot members retweeted this image captioned: "Putin will teach you to love the motherland" Members of a Cossack militia have attacked Pussy Riot members with horse whips as they tried to perform a protest under a sign for the Sochi Olympics. The group of five women and a man were whipped and pepper sprayed by the Cossacks, who violently pulled their ski masks from their heads. Group member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova was attacked with a whip as she lay on the ground. Krasnodar region governor Alexander Tkachev has promised to conduct a "thorough probe" into the incident and prosecute the attackers. He said in comments carried by the Interfax news agency that the views of Pussy Riot "are not supported by the majority of people in the region" but stressed the importance of abiding the law. The Cossacks have recently resurfaced, particularly in the south of Russia, as an auxiliary police force.Note: Video below contains violence
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First published: Thursday, 20th February 2014 - 9:20am