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Pussy Riot
Here Is Pussy Riot Member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova's Parole Hearing Speech. She Was Denied.
Tolokonnikova received a two-year sentence for her participation in a protest in Moscow's main Orthodox church last year.
What Does Pussy Riot Mean in Russian?
How does a protest that wouldn't turn a head in the West manage to distract Putin, unnerve the Orthodox church and pick at the scab of Russia's gender politics? A Western scholar just back from Russia explains the Pussy Riot phenomenon.