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Artists Support Jailed Russia Punk Band Pussy Riot
Members of the all-girl punk band “Pussy Riot” Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (C), Maria Alyokhina (R) and Yekaterina Samutsevich (L), sit behind bars during a court hearing in Moscow on July 20, 2012. Three members of the all-woman punk band “Pussy Riot” were detained, on charche of hooliganism for barging into a Moscow church and singing a “punk prayer” calling for the ouster of President Vladimir Putin on February 21, 2012″. The trio, who face up to seven years in jail, have been held in pre-trial detention since March after the incident in February, and their harsh treatment has become a new rallying cause for the anti-Putin opposition. AFP PHOTO / NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA

Artists Support Jailed Russia Punk Band Pussy Riot Facing Dictatorship’s Gulag Known For Cruelty

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Madonna may be saddled with her own share of Russian troubles right now, facing a 10.5 million lawsuit brought by a group of activists offended by the. Protesters took to the streets of New York yesterday to decry the two year prison sentence given by a Russian court to three members of Pussy Riot.

Western artists can and should support their Russian comrades. But the support received by Pussy Riot is sadly an aberration. There’s been plenty of talk about Russian feminist punk collective Pussy Riot in the global media over the past few weeks, but the neon-ski-mask-donning.

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