These three ladies, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Yekaterina Samutsevich, and Maria Alyokhina, play and sing in the Russian girls' punk band Pussy Riot, and they're on trial now in Moscow, charged with hooliganism. That was a serious charge back in the CCCP (you don't know how lucky you be, boy), and I wonder if they're looking at a tenner in Siberia.
Probably not, since the prez himself on Thursday expressed a desire to take it easy on the little tykes, and even though he's not judging the case (officially), says he hopes that the Russian just is system doesn't deal with them too harshly. Every dictator likes to play the merciful role once in a while, because it causes sycophants to kiss his butt with wildly wet and sloppy gratitude, and helps him feel good about himself.
The three busted into a Moscow cathedral during a worship service back in February and launched into a song in which they petitioned the Virgin to rid them of the Russian President. They said afterward they were protesting the Russian Church's close ties with Vladimir Puto, but the reverend fathers deny they are unduly influenced by the man they call "The Czar of all the Russias."
Puto is the worst Russian disaster since Chernobyl. Since his election to a third term in May, he's cracked down strongly on dissent at the same time as protests against his dictatorship have increased in numbers and intensity.
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