The spirit of Pussy Riot rallies the crowd in New York
The spirit of Pussy Riot rallies the crowd in New York
/Madonna introduced Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina on Wednesday night. The women, who were recently released in prison for protesting in a cathedral, spoke about conditions political prisoners face in Russia.
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Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 24, and Maria Alyokhina, 25, at a press conference. The women spent 21 months in prison after singing a punk song in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Savior as part of a demonstration by the feminist collective Pussy Riot.
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