pussy riot
# pussy-riot - Friday 1 February, 2013
Pussy Riot member taken to hospital
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova has been transferred to hospital for a diagnostic examination.
# pussy-riot - Tuesday 18 December, 2012
Jailed Pussy Riot member slams routine in ‘grey’ camp
Maria Alyokhina gives detailed account of her prison experience in Urals mountains.
# pussy-riot - Thursday 18 October, 2012
Ai Weiwei, Pussy Riot make art world power list
Art Review magazine’s annual Power 100 list includes the Chinese and Russian dissidents in its top 100 influential figures in the art world.
# pussy-riot - Thursday 11 October, 2012
Freed Pussy Riot rocker slams ‘strange game’ by authorities after release
Freed Pussy Riot member, Yekaterina Samutsevich denies there is a split among the trio.
# pussy-riot - Wednesday 10 October, 2012
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Russia frees one Pussy Riot member, keeps two in jail
Yekaterina Samutsevich was judged not to have had an actual involvement in the “punk prayer” performance at a Moscow cathedral in March.
# pussy-riot - Sunday 7 October, 2012
Putin hails Pussy Riot jail terms: report
“It was right to arrest them… one cannot undermine the moral foundations [and] break up the country,” Putin said today.
# pussy-riot - Tuesday 2 October, 2012
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# pussy-riot - Monday 1 October, 2012
Pussy Riot appeal delayed by court
One of the band members has fired her lawyers in what prosecutors criticised as a “delaying tactic”.
# pussy-riot - Thursday 30 August, 2012
Russian police ‘found ‘Free Pussy Riot’ written in blood over dead bodies’
The punk group’s lawyer said the message was a provocation to descredit people who opposed the band members’ recent prison sentences.
# pussy-riot - Sunday 26 August, 2012
Pussy Riot members flee from Russia
Two bandmates of the three women convicted by a Moscow court of hooliganism charges over anti-Putin protest at a church have fled the country, according to the group.
# pussy-riot - Tuesday 21 August, 2012
Hackers target website of Russian court that sentenced Pussy Riot
Hackers associating themselves with the loose-knit ‘hacktivist’ group Anonymous posted anti-Putin messages and demanded the band members’ release.
Pussy Riot protest held outside Russian Embassy in Dublin
Amnesty International is holding a “demonstration in solidarity” with the three women jailed in Moscow last week.
# pussy-riot - Monday 20 August, 2012
Pussy Riot: Police “pursuing other band members”
Meanwhile, former world chess champion and opposition leader Garry Kasparov has been questioned by police over allegedly biting a police officers’s hand at a protest.
Pussy Riot will not ask Putin for pardon: lawyer
The three women told their lawyer: “Let them go to hell with their pardon”.
# pussy-riot - Saturday 18 August, 2012
Pussy Riot trial reaction: band members’ conviction criticised by EU, US
Two-year sentence for hooliganism conviction criticised as ‘disproportionate’ and impacting on freedom of expression.
# pussy-riot - Friday 17 August, 2012
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Pussy Riot members sentenced to two years in prison
Three band members of the feminist punk group have been found guilty of “hoolganism motivated by religious hatred”.
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# pussy-riot - Sunday 12 August, 2012
Astronomical figures and Dáil drinks: The week in quotes
“Either take off the cross or put on pants.”
‘The whole world sees the case against us has been fabricated’ – closing statements at Pussy Riot trial
The women face three years in prison on charges of hooliganism for bursting into a Moscow cathedral to stage an anti-Putin protest.
# pussy-riot - Thursday 9 August, 2012
Russia: Deputy PM slams Madonna on Twitter for Pussy Riot support
Dmitry Rogozin accused the singer of moral lecturing, adding: “Either take off the cross or put on pants”.
# pussy-riot - Wednesday 8 August, 2012
Pussy Riot trial: singer compares prosecution to Stalin-era repression
Band’s final statement before verdict delivered amid high-profile calls for leniency.
# pussy-riot - Tuesday 7 August, 2012
Pussy Riot trial: prosecutors want three years for band members
Three members of the Russian punk band face jail on hooliganism charges after a stunt against Vladimir Putin.
Madonna calls for Pussy Riot pardon
The singer said it would be a tragedy if the three women received a lengthy sentence for their anti-Vladimir Putin protest.
# pussy-riot - Sunday 5 August, 2012
Pussy Riot supporters hope Madonna will back campaign
Madonna is due to perform in Moscow next week and supporters of the guerrilla protest group hope she will speak out against the trial.
# pussy-riot - Saturday 4 August, 2012
Pussy Riot trial: Putin calls for lenience
Meanwhile, protests took place opposite the Moscow courthouse in support of the three women on trial in Russia.
# pussy-riot - Monday 30 July, 2012
Punk protest ‘Pussy Riot’ trial begins in Moscow
Three members of the punk protest group are on trial for singing an anti-Vladimir Putin song in Moscow’s main cathedral.
# pussy-riot - Wednesday 14 March, 2012
Russian punk rockers in jail for anti-Putin prayer
The two women had briefly seized the pulpit at a cathedral in Moscow to chant “Mother Mary, drive Putin away” before they were arrested.












































