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Russia bans access to Pussy Riot videos
A Russian court issued an order Thursday to limit access to the videos of performances by the jailed feminist punk band Pussy Riot, ruling the films to be extremist. A Moscow court declared the videos, including the infamous “Punk Prayer” in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, to be “extremist”…
Report: Putin hails Pussy Riot jail terms
Russian President Vladimir Putin hailed the two-year jail sentences against three members of feminist punk band Pussy Riot for staging a performance protesting his rule, according to a report Sunday. “It was right to arrest them, and it was right that the court took the decision that it did,” Putin…
Kiss rockers back ‘pretty’ Pussy Riot’s rights, but not their music
Members of veteran rock band Kiss said Tuesday they back Russia’s punk rockers Pussy Riot even if they don’t think much of their music. “They’re very pretty girls. It is not a good band, but they have the right to do whatever they want to do,” Kiss bassist and singer-songwriter…
Lawyer: Pussy Riot members may face violence in prison
A lawyer for Pussy Riot has warned that three members of the feminist punk band sentenced to jail last week could face violence and discrimination because of the intense state campaign against them. “For half a year, state-run television has built up a very negative image of them – that they’re blasphemers, heretics,” said…
Russia breaks up Pussy Riot protest outside church
MOSCOW — Russian security guards broke up a demonstration Wednesday in support of protest punk group Pussy Riot outside the Moscow cathedral where the women performed this year, activists said. The protesters, wearing the group’s trademark coloured balaclavas, were holding individual letters that spelled the phrase “Blessed are the merciful”…
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…
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…
Watch: Riots break out at Occupy Rome protests
Video has emerged of the riot outbreaks at the Occupy Rome WATCH: Video from Youtube, which appeared on October 15, 2011.…
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