Get a fresh start. Max Seddon. Report a mispronounced word. Maria Alyokhina is the closest thing modern-day Russia has to a rock star. They even had a scene-stealing cameo in a Putin-themed episode of House of Cards. Yet in her native city she cuts a low-key figure.
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Russian women's prison camps: An ex-inmate's account
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These are external links and will open in a new window. Two members of Russian all-female punk band Pussy Riot, Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, have been sent to prison camps in Perm and Mordovia - to what Tolokonnikova's husband has described as "jail hell". Svetlana Bakhmina, a former lawyer for the now defunct Yukos oil company jailed in , recalls her time in one of the "tough" penal colonies in Mordovia, south-east of Moscow.