Three women who protested against Vladimir Putin in a "punk prayer" on the altar of Russia's main cathedral went on trial yesterday in a case seen as a test of the leader's treatment of dissenters.
The women from the band Pussy Riot face up to seven years in prison for a performance in February in which they entered Moscow's Christ the Saviour Cathedral, ascended the altar and called on the Virgin Mary to "throw Putin out!"
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