Where’s the Pussy Riot in Russia 2018?

TODAY the World Cup draws to a close. Whoever wins, on some level the Russian state, the host, and its president, Vladimir Putin, have won. But what of the Russian people? As warm and open as the country has seemed, it is still a difficult place for opposition activists and artists. Among the most famous of these is Pussy Riot, the punk band and collective that transfixed the world when, six years ago, three of their young members, Maria Alyokhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Yekaterina Samutsevich were tried for their forty second performance of their anti-Putin ‘Punk Prayer’.inside Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. They were sentenced to a shocking 20 months in prison, though Samutsevich was given a suspended sentence on appeal. . http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16355178.wheres-the-pussy-riot-in-russia-2018/