Vladimir Putin faced international condemnation as three young women from the opposition group Pussy Riot were jailed for two years for performing a 40-second "punk prayer" protesting the Russian president.
Cries of "shame" rang out at the city's Khamovnichesky Court as judge Marina Syrova handed down the sentence, saying the women's protest in Moscow's main cathedral was blasphemous, and "deeply insulting and disrespectful to Orthodox believers".
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, a philosophy graduate, Maria Alekhina, 24, a charity worker and environmental activist and Yekaterina Samutsevich, 30, a computer programming graduate, were arrested on charges of "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred" in March.
Critics said the Kremlin had ensured a jail term as a chilling warning against political dissenters, and as Mr Putin's personal reprisal for the group's performance in Christ the Saviour Cathedral in February, when they shouted "Mother of God, drive out Putin!" in front of the altar. Full story...
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Cries of "shame" rang out at the city's Khamovnichesky Court as judge Marina Syrova handed down the sentence, saying the women's protest in Moscow's main cathedral was blasphemous, and "deeply insulting and disrespectful to Orthodox believers".
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, a philosophy graduate, Maria Alekhina, 24, a charity worker and environmental activist and Yekaterina Samutsevich, 30, a computer programming graduate, were arrested on charges of "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred" in March.
Critics said the Kremlin had ensured a jail term as a chilling warning against political dissenters, and as Mr Putin's personal reprisal for the group's performance in Christ the Saviour Cathedral in February, when they shouted "Mother of God, drive out Putin!" in front of the altar. Full story...
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