#1 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 08/07/2012 #4

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (L), Yekaterina Samutsevich and Maria Alyokhina (R), members of female punk band Pussy Riot, attend their trial inside the defendant’s cell in a court in Moscow.

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#2 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 08/18/2012 #2

An activist holds a poster depicting Putin in support of members of the female punk band Pussy Riot during a protest rally at the Venceslas Square in Prague August 17th, 2012. Three women from Russian punk band Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years in jail on Friday for their protest against Putin in a church, an outcome supporters described as the Kremlin leader’s “personal revenge”.

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#3 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 08/19/2012 #4

A person demonstrator, center, wears a caricature mask of Putin, while others wear trademark Pussy Riot balaclavas during a support rally for the detained Moscow based feminist punk band outside the Russian embassy in Berlin. The group was sentenced Friday to two years in prison for hooliganism motivated by religious hatred after they staged an anti-Putin protest in Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Savior. With public readings, petitions and practical stunts, thousands of people around the world have voiced support for members of Russian feminist punk band.

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#4 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 12/29/2012 #4

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.

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#5 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 07/17/2013 #1

Pussy Riot band member Grelka speaks during an interview with journalists in Moscow. Four members of Pussy Riot danced on an oil pipeline in garish masks, tights, and short dresses in a new video, comparing Putin to an ‘ayatollah in Iran’ and attacking his allies in Russia’s rich energy sector.

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#6 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 07/29/2013 #4

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, a member of the female punk band Pussy Riot, is escorted by guards before a court hearing to appeal for parole at the Supreme Court of Mordovia in Saransk, Russia. Tolokonnikova was sentenced to two years in prison for the band’s performance against Putin at Moscow’s main Russian Orthodox cathedral in 2012.

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#7 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 09/27/2013 #3

Maria Alyokhina, jailed member of Russian punk band Pussy Riot, looks out from a defendants’ box as she attends a court hearing in Nizhny Novgorod. Alyokhina, convicted of hooliganism for protesting in a Moscow cathedral, appeared in court to appeal for the commutation of her sentence, according to local media.

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#8 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 12/24/2013 #4

Maria Alyokhina, member of Russian punk band Pussy Riot, speaks to the media at a train station in Nizhny Novgorod, December 23rd, 2013. Alyokhina walked free from jail on Monday under an amnesty allowing her early release from a two-year sentence for a protest in a church against Putin.

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#9 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 02/20/2014 #5

Cossack militia attacked the Pussy Riot punk group with horsewhips on Wednesday as the group staged an impromptu performance under a sign advertising the Sochi Olympics.

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#10 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 08/17/2021 #12

In 2012, in Moscow, a judge sentenced three punk rock style activists, members of the band Pussy Riot, to two years in prison for hooliganism for briefly taking over a cathedral in a raucous prayer for deliverance from Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin; the court decision drew protests around the world. (One of the three defendants was later released on probation; the other two were released several months short of their two year sentence in December 2013.) #PussyRiot #Putin

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#11 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 10/05/2021 #2

A member of Pussy Riot performs in the nationwide Women’s March, held after Texas rolled out a near total ban on abortion procedures and access to abortion inducing medications, in Austin, TX.

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