Putin's message: if you're pro Pussy Riot you're against the Orthodox church | Oleg Kashin

You might think an unjust trial would damage Putin, but it fits with his strategy of pitting 'simple people' against the 'creative class'Answering journalists in London, Vladimir Putin promised the members of Pussy Riot soft punishment and formally he wasn't lying: the prosecution asked for three years in prison and the court gave them just two. But such a "soft" sentence seems like an even more cynical mockery. Judge Marina Syrova read the text of her decision for nearly three hours, and from t...

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