Three members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot have been convicted of “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred,” over a protest in the lavishly rebuilt Russian Orthodox cathedral in Moscow.
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Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Yekaterina Samutsevich, and Maria Alyokhina have been given 2-year prison terms.
The trial and the sentences demonstrate, as was explained to me during my stay in Moscow, the close alliance between the Putin regime and the Russian Orthodox church—and the efforts of both to stamp out all dissent.
