Russian Punk Rockers Sit It Out in Jail
A Moscow judge on Friday ordered three members of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot to remain in jail awaiting trial for an anti-Putin performance in Moscow’s major church, the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, in February.
A Moscow judge on Friday ordered three members of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot to remain in jail awaiting trial for an anti-Putin performance in Moscow’s major church, the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, in February.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Yekaterina Samutsevich and Maria Alekhina have been imprisoned since March on charges of hooliganism.
Leaders of the Orthodox church and Putin’s administration want the women to stay behind bars, but a number of their followers are calling for the musicians’ release. Pretrial hearings are due to continue next week.
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WAIT BEFORE YOU GO...The Guardian:
Pussy Riot erupted on the scene amid a wave of protest over Putin’s re-election as president. With bright balaclavas, rabid punk anthems and explicitly anti-government lyrics, they helped enliven Russia’s growing urban protest movement.
… Many religious Russians who initially took offence at Pussy Riot’s church stunt have since called for their release. A poll released on Friday by the Levada Centre, an independent pollster, showed that 50% of Muscovites surveyed were against pursuing the criminal case against the three women, while 36% supported it.
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The idea that a few unsophisticated Facebook ads created by Russian trolls swung a U.S. presidential election is ridiculous.
They're known for their guerrilla tactics and public displays of punk protest, but now two members of the Pussy Riot collective, Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, are using the tools of the system to their advantage.
Pussy Riot members Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, among a dozen others, were detained Tuesday in the locale of the 2014 Winter Olympics for their alleged involvement in a theft at the Hotel Adler.
This may be a case of overstatement, but six members of the Russian punk group Pussy Riot have let it be known that Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, the two band members recently released from Russian prison, are no longer part of their collective.
Thanks to an amnesty bill passed unanimously in the Russian parliament, two members of the anti-Putin punk band were released from penal colonies Monday where they had been held for hooliganism. Meanwhile, the Kremlin still wants the world to know Vladimir Putin's not sorry for imprisoning the "disgraceful" musicians.
Pussy Riot's Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, whose whereabouts were a mystery for 26 days, has been found.
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