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Pussy Riot: Prosecution seeks 3-year prison sentence

Foregoing the maximum 7-year prison sentence, the prosecution seeks 3 years.

Pussy Riot: Madonna, Stalin, and Aleksei Navalny

Madonna supports Pussy Riot in Moscow and Pussy Riot trial likened to Stalinist repression.

Pussy Riot verdict: Punk rock band found guilty of hooliganism

Judge in Pussy Riot verdict finds that the punk rockers colluded to purposefully violate public peace.

Members of the all-girl punk band 'Pussy Riot.' Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (L), Maria Alyokhina (R) and Yekaterina Samutsevich (C), sit during a court hearing in Moscow on July 30, 2012. In February, five women walked silently into Moscow's Church of Christ the Saviour before clambering over railings, pulling on balaclavas, and singing out a protest song against Vladimir Putin. The three have already spent four months in jail awaiting trial .

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