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"Be humble, learn to obey, don't worry about material stuff."

"Be loyal to those in power, cause power is a gift from god, son."

"I love Russia, I'm a patriot."

Russian protest punk group Pussy Riot's new music video, released on Wednesday, takes on the country's prosecutor general Yuvi Y Chaika and allegations of corruption against him. The song, helpfully titled Chaika, which literally means seagull, features one band member with a bird mask on, all others in police uniforms torturing prisoners, and one other gorging on a lavish feast.

According to a New York Times report, Chaika was also responsible for sending three of the band members to jail in 2012 for performing a protest concert in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow.

The lyrics mock the hollowness of statements made by government officials and how those who declare their patriotism the loudest are also the ones most prone to corruption. The comments are spot-on, applicable to corrupt government officials all over the world.

The song is peppered with references to Chaika's business deals and presents given to his family members. A line goes: "We'll find nice jobs in prison for anyone who's too smart." A story not so different from those we hear in India.

The group's leader Nadezhda Tolokonnikova sings, "I run the war on corruption here, or to be precise, I run the corruption."

The video also features Vladimir Putin's framed portrait, the kind found in Russia's government offices. And the song's lyrics comment on how the well connected can get away with anything:

"We look out for our own homies, you know..."

"Friendship, brother, is sacred here."

Band members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Yekaterina Samutsevich, and Maria Alyokhinaand were sentenced to jail in 2012 for "hooliganism". Two of them served a year and nine months in prison before they were released under an amnesty law before the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Another member of the group, Yekaterina Samutsevich, was released on parole.