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Russian murder suspect denies Pussy Riot link
Russian investigators said Friday they had detained a professor who confessed to trying to mislead the police by scrawling “Free Pussy Riot” in blood on a wall after murdering a mother and her daughter. The shock discovery of the message in support of the jailed female members of the anti-Kremlin…
Female bomber kills seven as Putin urges calm
MOSCOW — A female suicide bomber posing as a Muslim pilgrim killed a leading Islamic scholar and at least five others on Tuesday in Russia’s restive Muslim region of Dagestan. The attack was reported just as President Vladimir Putin began delivering a keynote address devoted to an assassination attempt last…
Orthodox activists interrupt Pussy Riot play in Russia
Russian Orthodox Church activists burst into a theatrical show about the Pussy Riot feminist punk band late Monday, shouting “Repent!” and “Why do you hate Russians,” filmed by a national channel. The dramatic twist came as a cutting-edge theatre put on a documentary show about the three jailed singers’ stunt…
Two Pussy Riot members ‘have fled Russia’
MOSCOW — Two female Pussy Riot punk rockers who are being hunted by police for having taken part in a protest stunt against President Vladimir Putin have fled Russia in order to evade arrest, the group said Sunday. “Our two members who are wanted by police have managed to leave…
Ukraine extradites suspect in Putin murder plot
Ukraine on Saturday extradited one of the men suspected of plotting to assassinate President Vladimir Putin, state-owned Channel One reported. Ilya Pyanzin, who was arrested in Odessa in February, had already been taken to Moscow, the channel said, showing him at Odessa airport and then aboard a plane in handcuffs.…
Russian court acquits Garry Kasparov of illegal protest
Chess king turned Kremlin foe Garry Kasparov was acquitted on Friday of holding an unsanctioned protest, although he still risks jail for allegedly biting a policeman during the Pussy Riot trial. In a surprise verdict, a magistrate acquitted Kasparov, saying his guilt had not been proven by police witnesses, the…
Pussy Riot protester questioned about biting police officer during sentencing
Former chess king turned Kremlin critic Garry Kasparov faced the threat of prison Monday after being questioned over claims that he bit a policeman at the sentencing of the Pussy Riot punk rockers. The bizarre but serious charge could put the 49-year-old behind bars for five years and deliver even…
Pussy Riot protesters rally in Chicago
Supporters of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot rallied in Chicago on Saturday to protest against the band members’ prison sentences. “These women are complete badasses,” one protester said into a microphone, wearing the band’s iconic colorful balaclavas. A Moscow judge has ruled that Maria Alyokhina, 24, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22,…
Arrests, breasts, chainsaws: Punk world backs Pussy Riot
A topless Ukrainian feminist felled a cross with a chainsaw, balaclava-clad New Yorkers braved arrest to picket an Orthodox church and Bulgarian punks re-decorated a war memorial. Protesters took to the streets in cities around the world Friday to protest Russia’s jailing of female punk trio Pussy Riot, in colorful…
Britain: Pussy Riot sentencing is a ‘disproportionate response’
Britain added its voice to the international chorus of criticism of Russia on Friday after a court jailed three members of punk band Pussy Riot for criticising President Vladimir Putin. Alistair Burt, a junior foreign minister, said he was deeply concerned by Russia’s “disproportionate response” to what he said had…
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