Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova gestures as she leaves prison in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. Tolokonnikova and her bandmate Maria Alekhina were granted amnesty last week in a move largely viewed as the Kremlin’s attempt to soothe criticism of Russia’s human rights record ahead of the Winter Olympics in Sochi in February. More pics after cut...
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova speaks to the media after leaving prison in Krasnoyarsk. The third band member, Yekaterina Samutsevich, was released on a suspended sentence months after all three were found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred and sentenced to two years in prison for the performance at Moscow’s main cathedral in March 2012. (Tatyana Vishnevskaya / AP)
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, center right, and her husband, Pyotr Verzilov, get into car after leaving the prison in Krasnoyarsk. (Tatyana Vishnevskaya / AP)
Maria Alekhina sits in a car after her release from a penal colony in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. (Sergei Karpukhin / Reuters)
Maria Alekhina is surrounded by journalists after being freed in Nizhny Novgorod. (Anastasiya Makarycheva / AFP/Getty Images)
Maria Alekhina, second from left, speaks to the media at the Committee Against Torture after being released from prison in Nizhny Novgorod. (Committee Against Torture via AP)
Pussy Riot, whose membership varies in number, sings a song at Lobnoye Mesto (Forehead Place), which had long before been used to announce Russian tsars’ decrees and occasionally to carry out public executions, in Red Square in Moscow. (Denis Sinyakov / Reuters)
Maria Alekhina waves as she is escorted to court in Moscow after being detained for months following their protest concert. (Alexander Nemenov / AFP/Getty Images)
Pussy Riot performs during a concert by American rock group Faith No More in Moscow. (Sergei Karpukhin / Reuters)
Maria Alekhina, left, and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova speak to their lawyers through a window in their glass cage at a court in Moscow. (Mikhail Metzel / AP)
Band member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova gestures before a court hearing in Moscow. As the hearings raced toward a trial, rallies for the release of Pussy Riot members stretched from Sydney to New York. (Natalia Kolesnikova / AFP/Getty Images)
Protesters wearing masks take part in an Amnesty International flash mob demonstration in support of Pussy Riot in the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, Scotland. (David Moir / Reuters)
Pussy Riot members, from left, Yekaterina Samutsevich, Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova sit in a glass-walled cage during a court hearing in Moscow. (Natalia Kolesnikova / AFP/Getty Images)
A police officer chases a supporter of Pussy Riot climbing on a fence enclosing the Turkish Embassy near a court building in Moscow during the band’s trial for staging a protest concert against Vladimir Putin. Supporters described their jailing as the Russian leader’s “personal revenge.” (Mikhail Voskresensky / Reuters)
Pussy Riot members Yekaterina Samutsevich, third from left, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, center right, and Maria Alekhina, right, are escorted before their court hearing in Moscow. The phrase that got the group in trouble was, “Mother of God, cast Putin out!” The three were eventually found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred, a criminal offense with a maximum penalty of seven years in prison. (Sergei Karpukhin / Reuters)
Freed Pussy Riot member Yekaterina Samutsevich participates in an interview at the Echo Moskvy (Echo of Moscow) radio station in Moscow. A Moscow appeals court had unexpectedly freed Samutsevich two days earlier but upheld the two-year prison sentence for her two bandmates. (Alexander Zemlianichenko / AP)
Amnesty International members knit Pussy Riot fan scarves in Brussels. (Geert Vanden Wijngaert / AP)
Protesters hold portraits of the jailed members of Pussy Riot at an anti-government rally in Moscow. (Andrey Smirnov / AFP/Getty Images)
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova gestures at a district court from behind bars in Zubova Polyana, southeast of Moscow, in Russia’s province of Mordovia. (Mikhail Metzel / AP)
After the New York premiere of the documentary "Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer," at Landmark's Sunshine Cinema theater, Pussy Riot band members with the pseudonyms Headlights, left, and Puck, fielded questions. Both members donned their usual brightly colored balaclavas, an item of clothing was outlawed in Russia a month ago as part of the laws informally known as “Pussy Riot laws.” (Ilya S. Savenok / Getty Images)
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