Pussy Riot found guilty for stunt against Putin Podcast We Need To Talk... about Ryan Assange Iran and You Should Read the Defendants' Powerful Closing Statements [Pussy Riot] Topless FEMEN Activist Takes Down Giant Cross with Chainsaw to Protest Verdict [NSFW] [Video] The Case Will Punishment Fit Crime Russian lawyers say women mistreated Valery Gergiev is victim of hoax 'Authoritarian' one on trial JOAN BAEZ CALLS FOR RUSSIAN PUNK STARS' FREEDOM Found Guilty Hooliganism What Would a Music Label Pay Sign Russia Faces Criticism over Band Sentence DiS Does Pop #9 Top 10 girl bands alltime... ever Confirms World That It's Not A Fan Of Free Speech Gets Two Years In Jail Footage From Protests Shows Chess Master Garry Kasparov Getting Manhandled By Cops band members hooliganism court Punk Trial Ends in Moscow URGENT finds antiPutin Prosecutor Calls Musician Protestors Says Shouldn't Be Judged 'So' Harshly...

Russia warns against 'hysterics' over Pussy Riot Russia warned the West against "hysterics" over the Pussy Riot sentencing Monday as police said they were hunting members of the punk band still at large after the stunt mocking President Vladimir Putin. Pussy Riot sentence: How did it play in Russia? One day after three young members of Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years in a penal colony for profaning a Russian Orthodox altar, the controversy over what they did and how the Russian state reacted to it shows every sign of growing. Pussy Riot: 5 songs and videos that shook and polarized Russia MOSCOW - Given how world famous Pussy Riot has become, people are sometimes surprised to learn that the entire oeuvre of the women's punk band is made up of six songs and five videos. The Orthodox Priest Who Beat Pussy Riot The sentence and verdict against the feminist punk band is further evidence of the dangerous erosion of Russia's constitutional separation of church and state Russian court imprisons Pussy Riot band members on hooliganism charges Three members of Russian female punk rock band Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years in prison Friday after they were found guilty of hooliganism for performing a song critical of President Vladimir Putin in a church. Pussy Riot will not ask Putin for pardon: lawyer The three members of punk band Pussy Riot sentenced to two years in prison for performing an anti-Vladimir Putin song in Russia's top church will not ask the president for a pardon, their lawyer said Monday. Pussy Riot Greets 2-Year Sentence With a Smile Sad smiles broke out on the faces of the three Pussy Riot musicians as the judge announced that each would be jailed for two years for singing a punk song at a Moscow cathedral. A guide to Pussy Riot's oeuvre Given how world famous Pussy Riot has become, people are sometimes surprised to learn that the entire oeuvre of the women's punk band is made up of six songs and five videos. The Communist Party's Interesting View on Pussy Riot In a piece about Pussy Riot that actually made a number of quite decent points, Nick Cohen makes a mistake that I think is pretty common in writing about Russia (emphasis added): The Soviet communists who murdered Christians, Jews and Muslims were militant atheists. They persecuted others because of their [...] Pussy Riot verdict: live report 1535 GMT: We conclude our live report for the day now, after a Moscow court convicted the three members of protest band Pussy Riot -- Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, Maria Alyokhina, 24, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, 30 -- to two years in a corrective labour facility.
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