Pussy
Riot’s Next Act: Exclusive Photos of Life After Prison
If the
government of Vladimir Putin was counting on a spell behind bars to change
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, it could hardly have anticipated
the manner of their transformation. Most Russian political prisoners are never
heard from again, but the jailing of the two members of the punk-protest group
Pussy Riot had the opposite effect: it made them internationally famous — Paul
McCartney and Madonna sent messages of solidarity, German Chancellor Angela
Merkel name-checked them in a conversation with the Russian President — and
vastly amplified their anti-Putin message. That fame ensured that Tolokonnikova
and Alyokhina were released by Putin as part of a prisoner amnesty in late
December, a naked attempt to clean up the image of his regime ahead of
February’s Winter Olympics in Sochi.
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