Pussy Riot Members Freed - Putin's Latest Stunt?

"Vladimir Putin was named the most powerful person in the world earlier this year by FORBES, but even he has his limits.

Two members of the music collective Pussy Riot, who in 2012 were sentenced to two years in jail for performing an anti-Putin song in Moscow's main cathedral, were released today under a new amnesty law. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova was set free from a prison in Krasnoyarsk, a town in Siberia; co-defendant Maria Alyokhina was permitted to leave a facility in the western city of Nizhny Novgorod.

"I think this is an attempt to improve the image of the current government, a little, before the Sochi Olympics — particularly for the Western Europeans," she said. "But I don't consider this humane or merciful.""* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.

*Read more here from Zack O'Malley Greenburg / Forbes:

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