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Pussy Riot team appeals ‘punk prayer’ jailing
Pussy Riot lawyers on Monday appealed the jailing of three of the Russian band members for their “punk prayer” call for Vladimir Putin’s ouster ahead of his election to a new presidential term. The decision to contest this month’s controversial ruling came as news emerged that two other singers in…
Punk band Pussy Riot’s courtroom drama grips Russia
The trial of three members of an all-girl punk band charged for performing an anti-Vladimir Putin song in the country’s main cathedral has gripped Russians, some describing the court drama as better than the theatre. Journalists, bloggers, relatives and supporters have crowded since Monday into Moscow’s 40-seater Khamovnichesky courtroom for…
Prosecuted Russian punk band Pussy Riot says ‘Putin is scared of us’
Pussy Riot, the feminist punk rock band three of whose members are being prosecuted by the Russian authorities for singing an anti-Putin song in a Moscow cathedral, have told the Observer they refused to be intimidated by the government’s “brutality and cruelness” because they “had done nothing wrong”. Giving their…
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