The Executive

newyorker:

David Remnick on the Pussy Riot scandal: http://nyr.kr/R1fF0j

…the true verdict will be a verdict on the regime, not them. The women of Pussy Riot, like Sinyavsky and Brodsky before them, have spoken with the confidence of free people who know that their words—not least their closing statements—will outlive their persecutors, both in the courtroom and the Kremlin.

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