Russian court refuses bail for female punk band Pussy Riot
More prison for feminist punk rockers riles liberal Russians (via The Christian Science Monitor)
The controversy over the provocatively named Russian punk rock group Pussy Riot, which profaned an Orthodox altar by singing an obscene anti-Putin “prayer” in Moscow’s most important cathedral, notched up this week when a court refused to grant bail to three of the female band’s alleged members. The…
[Protester for punk rock band Pussy Riot. Nuria Fatych / Flickr]
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