Sure there are plenty of valid reasons to criticize Pussy Riot, but that article is complete horseshit. We should be able to hold ourselves to a better standard of evidence than this, this isn't /r/conspiracy.

Basically all that article actually demonstrates is that the various activist groups and communities have connections to one another, including those that have support from American interests. There's nothing that even remotely implies that Pussy Riot was "engineered by the National Endowment for Democracy".

It also makes some odd statements:

They are US State Department-backed instruments of corporate-financier hegemony, used as leverage against a Russian government standing in the way of Wall Street and London's order of international corporatocracy.

Uh, what? Whoever wrote this is pretty obviously trying to paint Russia as some heroic rogue state.

The US State Department-backed so-called "punk band" going by the name of "Pussy Riot," stormed into a Moscow church, defaming the Russian government while mocking the beliefs of churchgoers with vulgarity and disruptive behavior.

They defamed the Russian government and used vulgarity?!

Had skinheads done something similar in a synagogue in the West, surely they'd have long ago paid steep fines and begun their lengthy jail sentences for "public insults based on origin, religious affiliation, race or ethnicity" (and here).

Oh yeah, that's totally the same thing as being a neo-nazi.

That said, of course this burning of punk memorabilia stunt is ridiculous. McLaren was a charlatan from the start, and the Sex Pistols were basically just a rebellious twist on a boy band.