Since their 2012 arrest and subsequent release last last year, Nadya Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, the two most visible members of Russian protest-art collective Pussy Riot, have been media darlings. Now they’re setting out to become media operators.
Tolokonnikova and Alyokhina have launched a news outlet called Mediazona that will focus its reporting on Russian law, courts, and the justice system. It will work concurrently with their N.G.O., Zona Prava (Justice Zone), which is aimed at preserving prisoners’ rights
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