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MOSCOW - Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, currently awaiting a court verdict, has been offered by representatives from Playboy to do a photo shoot for the cover of the Ukrainian version of the magazine, the Izvestia newspaper wrote on Aug.15.

“Our readers are actively using social networking sites in which
Pussy Riot have been the main heroes in the past few months. We see
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova as an art figure and believe that her appearance
on the cover of Playboy Ukraine will be positively perceived by our
readers,” Playboy Ukraine editor-in-chief Vlad Ivanenko told the Russian
newspaper.

Talks have stalled, but we hope to resume them if the Tolokonnikova
is released following a court ruling due on August 17, he said.

Any female media person can make it to Playboy’s front cover, the
editor-in-chief said. The company strictly sticks to one rule: the
relations must be non-monetary. The magazine does not pay to its cover
girls.