«BP knows about Russian courts and the Moscow oligarchs who prefer to sue each other in London are giving their opinion of Russia’s legal system. But that does not mean the Pussy Riot trial is a miscarriage of justice.
If the girls had done in London – or most western cities – what they did in Moscow’s cathedral, they would be facing trial and potential jail. Just because Russian justice sometimes gets it wrong does not mean it always does.
The musicians interrupted proceedings at the cathedral in February, disguised in balaclavas, to sing a ‘punk prayer’ calling on God to remove Vladimir Putin, the prime minister about to become president again. They are accused of blasphemy and charged with hooliganism.»
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