Associated Press: Tim Maguire- 'Moscow Court Frees 1 of 3 Pussy Riot Members'

Source:Associated Press- one of the members of the Russia punk band (yes, there's such a thing) being freed from jail.

"A Moscow appeals court has freed one of the jailed Pussy Riot members but upheld the two-year prison sentence for the two others." 

From the Associated Press

Perhaps a lot of people in America (especially on the Far-Left and Atheist-Left) like to think and even argue that the Religious-Right is only a problem, only in existence in America. And perhaps have never heard of the Islamic Republic of Iran, or the Islamic Kingdom of Saudi, or the Russian Orthodox Church in the Russian Federation, that has a big influence of President Vladimir Putin's regime in Russia. All these other countries have at least theocratic influences over their national government's. And in Iran and Saudi Arabia case, they hav theocratic, national government's there. 

So when the Russian punk rock band Pussy Riot is arrested in Russia simply for giving a performance that is anti-religion or speaks out against the Putin Regime there, but then one of their members are released from jail, it means there's still some degree of free speech and personal freedom in Vladimir Putin's Russia. Not much, but at least there's some check left on his dictatorial power in that huge country.