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eng-pussy-riot.livejournal.com GUARDIAN: Two Pussy Riot members flee Russia. 27 aug 2012. Online broadcasting from a court hearing the case of #PussyRiot in Moscow. English version - twitter.com motildanopacaran@gmail.com Free Pussy Riot! Pussy Riot: will Vladimir Putin regret taking on Russia's cool women punks? www.guardian.co.uk The feminist collective hit the headlines when three members were arrested after an anti-Putin protest. Now they face up to seven years in jail, a prospect that has shocked and radicalised many Russians. Although they're not the imprisoned women, they don't have to be. That's the intention of the balaclavas -- they're meant to be anonymous, indivisible, representative. It doesn't matter which of them got arrested. That's the point -- that they're not individuals, they're an idea. And that's the thing that has gripped Russia and caught the attention of the rest of the world, too: that the Russian government has gone and arrested an idea and is prosecuting through the courts with a vindictiveness the Russian people haven't before seen. An idea perpetrated by three young, educated, middle-class women, or devushki (girls), as the Russians call them. And it's this that's the shock walking into the room. They're so young. So smiley. So nervous and bashful and embarrassed at the attention and not sure how to sit, or quite what they should and shouldn't say. Pussy Riot aren't just the coolest revolutionaries you're ever likely to meet. They're also the <b>...</b>