INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A Russian court hassentenced former Moscow municipal deputy and current Pussy Riot member Lucy Shtein to six years in prison in absentia for
Lithuania with her girlfriend and Pussy Riot bandmate Maria Alyokhina in the spring of 2022, weeks after Moscow invaded Ukraine.In May,
media in Icelandreported that Shtein and Alyokhina both received fast-tracked Icelandic citizenship.Shtein was tried for a March 2022post on
independent news website Mediazonareported.Prosecutors had requested an eight-and-a-half-year prison sentence against her.Shteinjoked on X
member of the liberal opposition party Yabloko in 2017.
