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Russia sentences Pussy Riot activist to six years in absentia for Ukraine "war fakes"

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Members of Pussy Riot, including Lucy Shtein second left, at their museum exhibition near Copenhagen

(L-R) Russia's political activists and members of Pussy Riot band Maria Alyokhina, Lucy Shtein, Olga Borisova and Diana Burkot pose for a photo at Pussy Riot's first ever museum exhibition at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebaek, outside Copenhagen, on September 13, 2023. Rooted in punk, humour, poetry and pure rage, the feminist-activist art collective Pussy Riot, formed in Moscow 2011, are famous for their spontaneous and courageos actions challenging the Russian regime. (Photo by Sergei GAPON / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION - TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION

Members of Pussy Riot, including Lucy Shtein second left, at their museum exhibition near Copenhagen in 2023. Photo: AFP

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