Moscow needs to provide an incentive for good behavior, so they need to know when they can receive probation for good behavior.
I don't think they did any damage to the church, did they?
They could do public service at the church for their probation, too. I hate to say this about Russia, but, I get the feeling feminism is a real issue there. I don't recall a Punk Rock guy band going to these extremes to be recognized.
MOSCOW, August 17 (RIA Novosti)
18:35 17/08/2012
Three members of the feminist punk collective Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years prison on Friday after being convicted of hooliganism and inciting religious hatred by a Moscow district court.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, Maria Alyokhina, 24, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, 30, were convicted for staging an anti-Kremlin “punk prayer” in a central Moscow cathedral in February.
The three have already spent more than five months in pretrial detention, which, according to Russian legislation, equals ten months in prison....
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