On Tuesday, a Moscow court announced an international wanted list of Pussy Riot member Lucy Stein on charges of spreading “false” information about the Russian armed forces, reports the TASS agency, citing Reuters.
A source in TASS told the Russian state news agency that Stein would be arrested as soon as she entered Russia because she fled Russia after being placed under house arrest.
Pussy Riot first came to international attention in 2012 after its members burst into Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Savior wearing hooded masks to sing an anti-Putin song, for which they were sentenced to two years in prison within months.
27-year-old Shtein, a former member of the Moscow City Council, managed to escape from Russia after the invasion of Ukraine began. She later arrived in Iceland, where the local legislature granted her citizenship in an emergency.
She said she managed to escape from custody after posing as a courier for a home delivery company.
#PussyRiot Participants Maria Alyokhina and Lyusya Shtein were able to leave #Russia. pic.twitter.com/C99UsbnIBT
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) May 11, 2022
Stein posted a video on Instagram showing a monitoring bracelet installed by the Russian authorities being removed from his leg.
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During her stay in Russia, Stein was repeatedly detained by the police due to her participation in anti-government protests. During one of these arrests, Stein and another band member, Maria Alyokhina, went on hunger strike in December 2021.
Alyokhina also managed to escape from Russia in April 2022 after the authorities announced that she would be sent to a colony. It also reached Iceland, passing through Belarus and then through Lithuania. Alyokhina, who also received Icelandic citizenship, and Stein are a couple.
Since the beginning of March last year, shortly after the start of the war in Ukraine, Russia has criminalized the distribution and dissemination of so-called “false information” about the country’s armed forces.
This law, which was later expanded to cover all Russian institutions operating abroad, the legislation in question was used to intimidate and imprison the last remnants of the Russian opposition.
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