Pussy Riot trial over Putin altar protest due to begin

Trial of three band members over protest song highlighting church ties to Kremlin is politically motivated, say supportersThree members of the band Pussy Riot, who staged a punk-rock protest against Vladimir Putin on the altar of Russia's main cathedral, go on trial on Monday in a case seen as a test of the president's tolerance of dissent.The trial, say observers, will reveal how much power the resurgent Russian Orthodox church and its head, Patriarch Kirill, wields. He has called the "punk pra...

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