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Freed Pussy Riot members vow to continue protesting against Putin

2013-12-23 3 Dailymotion

After nearly two years in prison, members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot are finally free.<br/> <br />Nadezhda Tolokonnikova was released from her Siberian jail Monday.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (Russian) FREED PUSSY RIOT MEMBER NADEZHDA TOLOKONNIKOVA, SAYING:<br/> <br />"Nothing has changed in me since I went to prison. I became stronger and more resilient. I hope that now I will be able to change the situation in the country for the better. I will be trying to do that."<br/> <br />Her release came hours after fellow bandmate Maria Alyokhina was also freed.<br/> <br />They had been sentenced to two years for a profanity-laced protest against President Vladimir Putin in a Russian Orthodox church in 2012.<br/> <br />The two were released this week under a new amnesty law.<br/> <br />Tolokonnikova says the new law is just for show to distract the world from Russia's human rights abuses.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (Russian) FREED PUSSY RIOT MEMBER NADEZHDA TOLOKONNIKOVA, SAYING:<br/> <br />"They just put on another show ahead of the Olymp

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