A major plotline in House of Cards’ third season, which premieres today on Netflix, involves Frank Underwood’s tense relationship with the fictional Russian president, Victor Petrov (Lars Mikkelsen). In the third episode, “Chapter 29,†Petrov attends a state dinner at the White House, where he gives a speech that’s interrupted by Pussy Riot members Nadya Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina (whose real-life protests in Russia landed them in prison). Watch their heated standoff below.
Pussy Riot Speak Out Against Russia’s President (Again) on House of Cards
