The two Pussy Riot members have been freed from prison following a sweeping Russian amnesty bill that releases up to a reported 26,000 Russian prisoners including the Greenpeace Arctic 30.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina told reporters they would like to focus on helping prisoners and setting up a human rights organization. Prior to the amnesty, both women were serving a two year sentence for "hooliganism" after staging an anti-Putin protest on the podium of a Russian Orthodox Church.
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