August 30, 2012

What Awaits Pussy Riot in Prison

Natalya Krainova, Moscow Times

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Though penal colonies are considered "more humane" than prisons, the successors of the Soviet-era gulag system are still no walk in the park.

But they're hardly a death sentence.

Labor is mandatory but salaried: often a couple of dollars a day.

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