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Two Members Of Pussy Riot Band Flee Russia
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After three members of the Russian feminist punk rock band Pussy Riot were sentenced to three years in prison for dissent, the two other members — whom authorities did not manage to arrest — have reportedly fled the country to seek protection.
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Russian Band Members Sentenced To Two Years Despite Vocal Support By Madonna
08/17/2012
In a Russian trial that has gotten worldwide attention as representing Russia's intolerance for citizens' dissent, three members of the feminist Russian band, Pussy Riot — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, Yekaterina Samutsevich, 30, and Maria Alekhina, 24 — have been convicted on charges of hooliganism for an anti-Putin impromptu concert that was performed in March in Moscow's main cathedral.
