‘Like a Gulag labour camp’: Former Russian prisoner, Pussy Riot member recalls life in penal colony | South China Morning Post

Repetitive manual labour for little pay, poor sanitary conditions, long periods of solitary confinement, penalties for an unbuttoned coat – such was life in the Russian penal colony as remembered by Maria Alyokhina, member of the banned Russian punk band Pussy Riot, who was sent there for two years for taking part i…

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