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Five members of Pussy Riot have been sentenced in absentia to prison in Russia on charges relating to performances criticising the war in Ukraine. The jail terms handed down to members of the feminist ...

Russian authorities have sentenced a Pussy Riot activist to 11 years behind bars in absentia after she staged a provocative protest against Vladimir Putin. Anastasia "Taso" Pletner, 28, was among five ...

Moscow's highest court panel is examining an appeal by three members of the punk band Pussy Riot against their conviction for an anti-Putin protest. Pavel Chikov, head of the Agora legal aid group ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky will be pardoned, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Thursday in a surprise decision that will let his top foe and Russia’s formerly ...

Riot police were called to calm massive riots that broke out in Moscow over the weekend that highlighted a simmering racial tension between ethnic Russians and Muslims from the Caucasus that's always ...

If Maria Alyokhina hadn’t escaped from Russia disguised as a food courier, she would be in jail right now. The Pussy Riot activist knows from experience how tough life can be for political prisoners ...

A court in Moscow ruled today that the anti-Kremlin punk band Pussy Riot are "extremists" and that any website that continues to host video clips shot by and of them should be blocked. That would ...