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<span class="date-display-single">Tue, 01/05/2012</span> </div>
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<p>Pussy Riot is an anonymous Russian feminist punk band. Its anonymous members, whose identities are concealed by their costumes, formed in October last year as a feminist music collective that performs public “flash mob” gigs to protest the rule of Russian President Vladamir Putin. </p>
<p>The band performed a “punk prayer” at the altar of the Christ the Savior cathedral in Moscow on February 21, before being removed by security guards. The video went viral in the days that followed and a criminal investigation into Pussy Riot began. Three alleged Pussy Riot members are being held by police.</p>
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