Artist Pyotr Pavlensky, a supporter of jailed members of female punk band Pussy Riot, looks on with his mouth sewed up as he protests outside the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg, July 23rd, 2012. A court on Monday rejected a request to call Putin and the head of the Russian Orthodox Church to testify in the trial of three female punk rockers who derided Putin in a protest in the country’s main cathedral, their lawyer said. |
