Just in from Reuters: BREAKING: RUSSIAN APPEALS COURT UPHOLDS TWO-YEAR PRISON SENTENCES FOR TWO MEMBERS OF ANTI-KREMLIN PUNK GROUP PUSSY RIOT, FREES THIRD
Here‘s the full report: Yekaterina Samutsevich is out. The other two are doomed to the tombs for two years – Russian justice in action.
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