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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsReminder: Living in Russia under Putin is dangerous
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Two Pussy Riot members are missing. Olya Borisova & Sasha Sofeev disappeared in Crimea yesterday.
FSB detained them several times. Yesterday cops broke their phones and computers. We can not reach out to them.
We don't know what has happened to them
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Reminder: Living in Russia under Putin is dangerous (Original Post)
octoberlib
Feb 2018
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braddy
(3,585 posts)1. Damn
OneGrassRoot
(22,920 posts)2. Whew, they found them!
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,505 posts)3. Good! nt
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)5. Thank goodness!
EleanorR
(2,395 posts)4. Two other members have fled in fear to Sweden
"We were not given the opportunity to live normally," Djanyan says, recalling their treatment in Russia as her husband and son play on the toy-strewn floor behind her. "We were harassed, pressed, threatened using various methods psychological as well as physical."
The couple say their life as outcasts is the price they pay for joining Pussy Riot. The group made global headlines in 2012 when four members performed a "punk prayer" in Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral. They criticized Putin, the clergy and Russia's poor record on LGBT rights.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russian-punk-rockers-say-swedish-exile-price-opposing-putin-n847896
The couple say their life as outcasts is the price they pay for joining Pussy Riot. The group made global headlines in 2012 when four members performed a "punk prayer" in Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral. They criticized Putin, the clergy and Russia's poor record on LGBT rights.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russian-punk-rockers-say-swedish-exile-price-opposing-putin-n847896