What Pussy Riot have done is show up the machinery of the state for what it is: scary, violent, punitive and male
They're now going to pay the price. Russian women's prisons are even harsher than the male ones.
The women have been depicted on state television as evil satanists and their lawyers fear for their safety. It's unlikely they'll stay in Moscow; like Khodorkovsky, they'll probably be shipped off to a far-off prison in Siberia away from family and friends, from their young children.
It's not a joke. It's a brutal, nasty place, Putin's Russia. And because of Pussy Riot, we all now know that now
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