Her bandmate Tyurya said: "The culture of protest needs to develop.
"The culture of protest needs to develop," one of the members of Pussy Riot said last month, and indeed as much as the band represent a form of protest in Russia, they also embody a shift in culture that echoes the DIY culture that flourished in the Seattle and Olympia areas of Washington in the early 90s – fanzines, garage punk bands, a tone of wild irreverence and a wish to question tradition.
If ever a critical mass of street protests were to develop and individuals thought the state's gendarmerie was no longer impregnable, it was likely that a full-scale uprising would quickly balloon.
"It's created a momentum for people to either landmark their own homes or see what else needs to be landmarked," said Michael Sabatino, who was one of the neighbors who protested plans to develop the property on which the house sits.
The onset of cold weather in New York over the past two weeks, coupled with the sense of permanence the protest had started to develop, had led to an increase in the number of tents, with more than a 100 counted last week.
Periods significantly shorter than this may not allow for stable protest actor structures to develop that are then viable for sociological analysis (continuity).
In Turkey, the unrest began on 28 May as a protest against plans to develop Gezi Park, a rare green space in central Istanbul.
Today Split is seeing protests against plans to develop the forested Marjan park area near to the city, in which both the town's rich mayor and his girlfriend have financial interests.Locals are also angry about rising regional disparities.
This was the scene in Wolenkomi, a town in Ethiopia's Oromia region, on Tuesday, shortly after security forces fired into a crowd protesting at plans to develop farmland surrounding the capital, Addis Ababa.
For now at least atomized environmental protests are unlikely to develop into a large-scale, countrywide social movement.
