Rita Flores, a 29-year-old Russian artist and member of the Pussy Riot (a feminist protest art collective known for anti-Kremlin demonstrations) collective, has revealed she was coerced by officers from Russia's FSB security service into informing on fellow activists for three years, only breaking her cooperation when she fled Russia in late August. Flores says she was recruited in February 2023 after agents threatened to prosecute her under wartime censorship laws and to have her mother killed if she refused to sign cooperation papers, after which she was tasked with gathering information on opposition-minded artists and eventually asked to help lure a Pussy Riot-linked activist in Ukraine into a trap in Serbia where an FSB squad planned to kidnap and kill him. Having escaped through means she declined to disclose, Flores says she went public to encourage others in similar situations to break ties with the FSB, and her lawyer has since opened a secure contact line for people facing comparable coercion.