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MOSCOW - Russian President After Khodorkovsky releases Pussy Riot. Amnesty for Maria Alyokhina and Nadia Tolokonnikova. "Operation Style"? Maybe we'll find out soon after the Olympic Games, which will be triggered on 7 February in Sochi.
Thursday 26 December 2013 3 minutes reading time
The Sochi Games have cost almost € 38 billion. With the Olympics set in the Caucasus apparently cleaned up by Chechen rebels, President Putin of Russia celebrates the return of the great powers, hosting the first major international event after the disintegration of the USSR''. And so forth'' s charm offensive, which began a few months ago. It remains open disputes about gays.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, member of the Russian band Pussy Riot, has been discharged from the penal colony of Krasnoyarsk, in eastern Siberia, thanks to the amnesty approved by Parliament last week in Moscow. Before she was released today was another musician in the group, Maria Alekhina. Both, as well as Yekaterina Samutsevich already released long ago, had been convicted of vandalism motivated by religious hatred, after singing a "punk prayer" against President Vladimir Putin in the cathedral in Moscow. According to critics, the amnesty that allowed their release is nothing more than an attempt by the Kremlin to appease the allegations of violations of human rights, in view of the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi 2014. Friday Putin has graced the former tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who served ten years in prison on charges and convictions viewed internationally as a punishment for having challenged Putin's power.
According to critics, the amnesty was an attempt by the Kremlin to appease the allegations of human rights groups in view of the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi 2014. Another component of Pussy Riot, Yekaterina Samutsevich, was convicted of vandalism motivated by religious hatred and sentenced to two years in prison, but was released after a few months suspended sentence.
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