![](http://blogamole.tr3s.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/148940262.jpg "Members of the all-girl punk band \\"Pussy Riot\\" Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (C), Maria Alyokhina (R) and Yekaterina Samutsevich (L), sit behind bars during a court hearing in Moscow on July 20, 2012. Three members of the all-woman punk band \\"Pussy Riot\\" were detained, on charche of hooliganism for barging into a Moscow church and singing a \\"punk prayer\\" calling for the ouster of President Vladimir Putin on February 21, 2012\\". The trio, who face up to seven years in jail, have been held in pre-trial detention since March after the incident in February, and their harsh treatment has become a new rallying cause for the anti-Putin opposition. NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP/GettyImages")
By Michael Lopez
In this country, protest songs are a way of life (just as Ozomatli). But over in Russia, it’s a very different story. Incredibly, the Moscow-based group Pussy Riot is facing a seven-year jail sentence after performing an anti-government song about President Vladmir Putin.
Fronted by Maria Alyokhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Yekaterina Samutsevich,
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