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Pussy Riot’s Nadezhda “Nadya” Tolokonnikova, who was imprisoned for protesting Russian President Vladimir Putin, says “democracy is being eroded” by leaders like President Donald Trump.

“We’ve seen the authoritarian tendencies is parading all around the world as sexually transmitted diseases, and we think it’s time to make connection,” Tolokonnikova told CNN’s #GetPolitical series. “It’s time to create global people’s movement if we want to find an alternative to this raid of populism, which we’ve seen in my own country, Russia and in America too, Donald Trump, and in the UK, which ended up in Brexit.”

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