PUTIN’S PUNKERS FACE 7 YEARS IN PRISON

(Reuters) – Three women who protested against Vladimir Putin in a “punk prayer” on the altar of Russia’s main cathedral went on trial on Monday in a case seen as a test of the longtime leader’s treatment of dissent during a new presidential term.

The women from the band ‘Pussy Riot’ face up to seven years in prison for an unsanctioned performance in February in which they entered Moscow’s Christ the [...]