Pussy Riot came to the world’s attention with its Punk Prayer, an angry anti-Putin anthem performed in a Moscow church. Maria Alyokhina spent two years incarcerated in a penal colony as a result. It ...

The book "Political Girl" by Pussy Riot activist Maria Alyokhina describes her fight for a free Russia and her resistance to the Putin regime — which ultimately culminated in her spectacular escape in ...

Some works of art could be said to be perfectly timed. “Guernica” called attention to the horrors of war as practiced by fascist Spain in awful harmony with fascist Germany. It was and is propaganda ...

asha Alyokhina ran. First from a Russian apartment and her broken-off electronic ankle tag. Then through Belarus, Lithuania ...

KRASNOYARSK, Russia (AP) — Two members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot were reunited on Tuesday after spending nearly two years in prison for their protest at Moscow's main cathedral, and said ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MOSCOW (AP) — Pytor Verzilov, a Russian ...

Even before Russian police cracked the case it seemed fairly obvious that the words "Free Pussy Riot" scrawled across the wall at a double murder scene in Kazan were there as a diversion, not an ...