Russian prime minister condemns anti-Putin stunt by feminist punk group but says prolonging imprisonment is ‘unproductive’ Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian prime minister, has called for the three jailed members of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot to be freed. But Pussy Riot’s supporters quickly dismissed the prime minister’s statements, noting his long history of appealing to Russia’s more liberal demographic while failing to follow through on delivering results. In televised remarks about the band on Wednesday, Medvedev said he was “sickened by what they did, by their looks, by the hysteria that followed what had happened”

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