Pussy Riot Sensation Challenges Putin Crackdown on Dissent
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A Moscow court is scheduled to deliver its verdict today in the trial of three female punk performers whose prosecution has become an international symbol of President Vladimir Putin’s intolerance for dissent.
Prosecutors are seeking three-year prison terms for the Pussy Riot band members, who are charged with hooliganism and inciting religious hatred for performing a “punk prayer” in the country’s main Christian Orthodox place of worship in February urging Putin’s removal.