A Moscow court sentenced five members of the exiled feminist art collective Pussy Riot to prison in absentia on charges relating to anti-war protest and performances critical of Vladimir Putin’s regime. The jail terms ranged from eight to 13 years, according to Mediazona, the news outlet founded by Pussy Riot. Activists Maria “Masha” Alyokhina, Diana Burkot, Olga Borisova, Alina Petrova, and Taso Pletner were accused of disseminating “false information” about the Russian military in the collective’s 2022 anti-war music video “Mama, Don’t Watch TV,” and in a 2024 performance at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich during which a member urinated on a portrait of Putin. “I stand by every single word and my anti-war stance is clear,” Burkot said in a statement posted on X, calling the verdict a “joke.” “The paradox is that rapists and murderers in Russia get 3–4 years, sometimes spending less than a year in prison before signing a military contract, killing Ukrainians and then they retu...