Topic - Pussy Riot

Pussy Riot is a Russian, feminist, punk-rock collective that stages politically provocative impromptu performances in Moscow, on subjects such as the status of women in Russia, and most recently against the election campaign of Prime Minister Putin for president of Russia. - Source: Wikipedia

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FILE - In this Friday, Sept. 7, 2018 file photo, Pyotr Verzilov, a member of the feminist protest group Pussy Riot, speaks during an interview to the Associated Press in Moscow, Russia. Russian state news agency Tass says on Sunday, June 21, 2020 a prominent member of the protest group Pussy Riot has been detained by the police anti-extremism division. 9AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Pussy Riot member sentenced to 15 days in Russia

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Report: Pussy Riot member held in Russia extremism probe

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In this file photo taken dated Friday, Sept. 7, 2018, Pyotr Verzilov, a member of the feminist protest group Pussy Riot, speaks during an interview to The Associated Press in Moscow, Russia. A member of the Russian protest group Pussy Riot said Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018, that he's recovering after spending two weeks in intensive care after a suspected poisoning. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Sickened Pussy Riot activist discharged from German hospital

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FILE - In this Sunday, July 15, 2018 file photo, stewards pull a woman off the pitch after she stormed onto the field and interrupted the final match between France and Croatia at the 2018 soccer World Cup in the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia. The chief organizer of Russia’s World Cup says police stopped 170 people from invading the pitch during games before four members of the Pussy Riot protest group eventually stormed the final dressed as police officers. Organizing committee CEO Alexei Sorokin has downplayed security problems despite the pitch invasion that happened in the final between France and Croatia on July 15. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

Russian Pussy Riot activist conscious after poisoning

By FRANCESCA EBEL - Associated Press

This photo provided by the Cinema For Peace Foundation shows Pjotr Wersilow, member of the Russian Punk band 'Pussy Riot' receiving medical treatment in an ambulance as he arrives at the Schoenafeld airport in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018. (Cinema for Peace Foundation/dpa via AP)

German doctors: Pussy Riot poisoning ‘highly plausible’

By FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press

This photo provided by the Cinema For Peace Foundation shows Pjotr Wersilow, member of the Russian Punk band 'Pussy Riot' receiving medical treatment in an ambulance as he arrives at the Schoenafeld airport in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018. (Cinema for Peace Foundation/dpa via AP)

German government concerned for health of Pussy Riot member

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FILE In this file photo taken on Monday, July 23, 2018, Pyotr Verzilov, a member of the feminist protest group Pussy Riot, gestures during hearings in a court in Moscow, Russia. Russian news reports say Verzilov a member of Russian punk protest group Pussy Riot has been hospitalized in grave condition for what could be a possible poisoning. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)

Pussy Riot member treated in Berlin for suspected poisoning

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In this photo taken on Friday, Sept. 7, 2018, Pyotr Verzilov, a member of the feminist protest group Pussy Riot speaks during an interview to the Associated Press in Moscow, Russia. Verzilov is reported Wednesday Sept. 12, 2018, to have been admitted to hospital allegedly after a suspected poisoning attack, and his medical condition is not yet known. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Russia: Pussy Riot activist may have medicine poisoning

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Pyotr Verzilov, a member of the feminist protest group Pussy Riot, gestures during hearings in a court in Moscow, Russia, Monday, July 23, 2018. Four members of the feminist protest group Pussy Riot, who had run onto the pitch dressed in police uniforms during the World Cup final, were sentenced in Moscow City Court on Monday. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Pyotr Verzilov of Pussy Riot hospitalized, in grave condition in suspected poisoning

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Russia: Pussy Riot activist treated for possible poisoning

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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 activist protests torture in Russian prisons

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Olga Pakhtusova, a member of the feminist protest group Pussy Riot, is lead out of jail and into a police van in Moscow, Russia, Monday, July 30, 2018. Four members of the feminist protest group Pussy Riot, who had run onto the pitch dressed in police uniforms during the World Cup final were sentenced for two weeks. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Pussy Riot members who disrupted WCup re-arrested in Moscow

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Security stewards remove people who ran onto the pitch and briefly stopped the final match between France and Croatia at the 2018 soccer World Cup in the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, July 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Pussy Riot upstages Putin with protest that halts World Cup

By JAMES ELLINGWORTH - Associated Press

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot performs at El Korah Shrine during Treefort Music Fest in Boise, Idaho, Sunday, March 25, 2018. The show began on Saturday. (AP Photo/Otto Kitsinger)

Pussy Riot targets Trump in Republican stronghold of Idaho

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI - Associated Press

FILE - In a Tuesday Feb. 4, 2014 file photo, Nadezhda “Nadya” Tolokonnikova and Maria “Masha” Alyokhina, of the punk band Pussy Riot, hold a news conference at Amnesty International's New York headquarters. It was announced Monday, April 28, 2014, that Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova are expected at the PEN American Center Literary Gala scheduled for May 5 at the Museum of Natural History in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

Pussy Riot members to attend May 5 literary gala

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