One member of Pussy Riot freed

MOSCOW, RUSSIA: An appeals court has officially overturned the conviction of Yekaterina Samutsevich, a member of the now famous Russian punk band Pussy Riot after it was heard that she never actually performed a song critical of Vladamir Putin‘s presidency inside one of the  countries most important cathedrals.

The court heard that Samutsevich was not involved in the flash mob style act after a video surfaced online revealing that she was not in the group of women who performed said act.

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