Filmmaker Mike Lerner spent six months with members of the Russian feminist art collective, Pussy Riot as they fought charges of hooliganism and religious hatred for their performance of a "punk prayer" inside a Moscow cathedral. He talks to Kathryn about the women behind the coloured balaclavas and how political and religious forces contrived to make an example out of three young artists who stepped out of line.
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