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Pussy Riot To Speak At Dangerous Ideas
Pussy Riot’s Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina will speak at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas, at Sydney Opera House in Australia Aug. 30-31.
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Nadya Tolokonnikova, right, and Masha Alekhina, left, participate in a press conference in Berlin.
The two will discuss their run-ins with Russian President Vladimir Putin that led to their imprisonment. Among other speakers are Salman Rushdie, former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, feminist Bettina Arndt, conservationist Tim Flannery and Russian author Masha Gessen.