Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Punk group Pussy Riot was declared an “extremist organization" by a Russian court on Monday. The ruling, which was made by ...

Upon being released from prison in December 2013 after serving time for “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred,” Russian political activist Maria Alyokhina observes that she and her fellow Pussy ...

Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina has been taken to hospital after starting a hunger strike. The Russian political activist was moved to a hospital in her prison colony in Berezniki, the husband of ...

If Maria Alyokhina hadn’t escaped from Russia disguised as a food courier, she would be in jail right now. The Pussy Riot activist knows from experience how tough life can be for political prisoners ...

Pussy Riot musicians Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina will be freed from prison, after having their sentences cut under Russian President Vladimir Putin's amnesty bill. Over 1,000 people may ...

Maria Alyokhina, trans. from the Russian by Emily Eccles. Beacon, $29.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-8070-2428-7 Alyokhina, a member of the Russian performance art group Pussy Riot, recounts in her dynamic ...