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Russian activist of the feminist protest group Pussy Riot Maria Alekhina talks to a policeman as she holds a protest in front of the Federal Penitentiary building in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018. Pussy Riot protest against torture in Russian prisons. (AP Photo/ Alexander Sofeev)

Pussy Riot says member has left Russia, despite ban

Associated Press

Russian activist of the feminist protest group Pussy Riot Maria Alekhina listens in a court room in Moscow, Thursday, Dec. 21, 2017. Alekhina, member of the punk band Pussy Riot, was detained on Wednesday for a protest outside the headquarters of Russia's main security agency and was sentenced on Thursday to 40 hours of community work. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Pussy Riot activist sentenced to community works for protest

Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 17, 2012 file photo members of the Russian radical feminist group Pussy Riot give an interview to the Associated Press in a break during their rehearsal in Moscow, Russia. Five years after a Moscow court sent two members of the punk band Pussy Riot to prison, Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova are using their ordeals in prison as creative inspiration. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev, File)

Women of Pussy Riot use prison experiences as inspiration

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA - Associated Press

Russian political activists Nadya Tolokonnikova, center, and Maria Alyokhina, left, of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot, join Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., the chairman of the Helsinki Commission in seeking action to stop violations of human rights by pro-Russian militants in the Ukraine region, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, May 6, 2014. At right is Pyotr Verzilov, Nadya Tolokonnikova's husband who helped to interpret. The political activists spent more than a year behind bars for performing songs critical of Russian leader Vladimir Putin. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Pussy Riot members tell Congress of rights abuses

By ALAN FRAM - Associated Press

Pussy Riot members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, center, and Maria Alekhina, left, arrive for a press conference while followed by a person in a chicken costume protesting the punk group - who have feuded with Vladmir Putin's government for years - Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Pussy Riot presents Sochi punk video

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA - Associated Press

Russian punk group Pussy Riot members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, in the blue balaclava, and Maria Alekhina, in the pink balaclava, run down the street with other women after they were released from a police station, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014, in Adler, Russia. No charges were filed against Tolokonnikova and Alekhina along with the others who were detained. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Pussy Riot make comeback in Sochi during Olympics

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA - Associated Press

A Cossack militiaman attacks Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and a photographer as she and fellow members of the punk group Pussy Riot, including Maria Alekhina, right, in the pink balaclava, stage a protest performance in Sochi, Russia, on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014. The group had gathered in a downtown Sochi restaurant, about 30km (21miles) from where the Winter Olympics are being held. They ran out of the restaurant wearing brightly colored clothes and ski masks and were set upon by about a dozen Cossacks, who are used by police authorities in Russia to patrol the streets. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Russian security forces attack Pussy Riot members

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA and ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

This photo provided by Maria Alekhina, a member of the punk band Pussy Riot, was taken in the back of a police detention vehicle after she and several others were detained in Sochi, Russia, on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014. Fellow band member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova wrote on Twitter that she and Alekhina were detained Tuesday while walking in downtown Sochi, the host city of the Winter Olympics. (AP Photo/Maria Alekhina)

Sochi tension: Pussy Riot members briefly detained

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA - Associated Press

Madonna participates in Amnesty International's &quot;Bringing Human Rights Home&quot; Concert at the Barclays Center on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014 in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Madonna, Pussy Riot speak at human rights concert

By MESFIN FEKADU - Associated Press

Russian punk band Pussy Riot members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, and Maria Alekhina, right, glance at each when responding to questions from the media during a press conference as part of a human rights weekend in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Friday, Jan. 31, 2014. Tolokonnikova and Alekhina were released from prison last month after serving 21 months for hooliganism following their March 2012 arrest for giving an unauthorized performance in Christ The Savior Cathedral in Moscow, Russia. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Pussy Riot urges pols to speak out in Sochi

By TOBY STERLING - Associated Press

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova speaks to the media after leaving prison in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, Monday, Dec. 23, 2013. The third member of the Russian punk bank Pussy Riot has been released from custody following an amnesty law passed by parliament. Tolokonnikova left the prison colony in the eastern Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk on Monday, hours after another band member, Maria Alekhina, was released in another region. (AP Photo/Alexander Roslyakov)

2 Pussy Riot members released from prison

By Alexander Roslyakov and Nataliya Vasilyeva - Associated Press

Pussy Riot members say they have no regrets

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

Jailed feminist punk band Pussy Riot member Maria Alekhina is seen in a cell at a courtroom in Berezniki, about 1,500 km (940 miles) northeast of Moscow on Jan. 16, 2013. A Russian court on Wednesday turned down her attempt to defer serving her sentence until her preschool son becomes a teenager. Alekhina was convicted last year along with two other band members of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred for an anti-President Vladimir Putin stunt in Russia's main cathedral. (Associated Press)

Russian court rejects punk rocker’s appeal

By Dmitry Kozlov and Nataliya Vasilyeva - Associated Press

Russian court turns down Pussy Riot appeal

By DMITRY KOZLOV and NATALIYA VASILYEVA - Associated Press

Russian court may defer Pussy Riot member sentence

By DMITRY KOZLOV and NATALIYA VASILYEVA - Associated Press

Verdict in Russian punk trial set for Aug. 17

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA - Associated Press

Feminist punk group Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova is escorted Aug. 8, 2012, at a court in Moscow. Tolokonnikova and two other group members have been in custody for five months after giving an impromptu performance in Moscow's main cathedral to call for an end to Vladimir Putin's rule. (Associated Press)

Verdict in Russian punk trial set for Aug. 17

By Nataliya Vasilyeva - Associated Press

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (center), a member of the feminist punk group Pussy Riot, is escorted Aug. 6, 2012, to a courtroom in Moscow. Tolokonnikova and two other members of the group are facing trial on charges of hooliganism for performing a "punk prayer" at Moscow's main cathedral against Vladimir Putin's return to the Russian presidency. (Associated Press)

Feminist anti-Putin rockers say judge biased

By Nataliya Vasilyeva - Associated Press

Anti-Putin feminist punks on trial in Moscow

By LAURA MILLS - Associated Press