The members of the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot, who spent two years in prison until they were pardoned by President Vladimir Putin on Monday, said Friday they still want him out of office.
“We still want to do what we said in our last performance for which we spent two years in prison: drive him away,” Nadezhda Tolokonnikova said at a news conference Friday, the Associated Press reports.
The three band members were convicted of hooliganism for their unauthorized performance at the iconic Christ The Savior Cathedral in March 2012. One had her sentenced suspended last year, and Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina were released this week.
The two members granted amnesty told reporters that they planned to focus on activism, including plans to help Russian inmates, and they called on world leaders to boycott the Winter Olympics that will be in Sochi in February in protest of Putin.
[AP]