SILENCED Members of the Russian punk bank Pussy Riot sit inside a detention box during their court appearance in Moscow on Friday. A judge in the case – appointed to the bench by president Vladimir Putin – found band members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Yekaterina Samutsevich and Maria Alyokhina guilty of “hooliganism” for a performance at Moscow’s main cathedral in February. They were sentenced to two years in prison. (Photo: Andrey Smirnov / AFP-Getty via The New York Times)