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(23 Dec 2013) Maria Alekhina, who was released from a prison in Nizhny Novgorod earlier on Monday, arrived in Moscow to a hero's welcome from her supporters and media eager to question the Pussy Riot group member.
"I'm planning to engage in human rights activities, socially-oriented activities and it will be just as bright and bold as when we were in Pussy Riot," she told the media scrum around her.
She also revealed that she was on her way to see Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, the second Pussy Riot group member released from the Siberian prison on Monday.
Alekhina and Tolokonnikova were serving two years in prison on charges of hooliganism for an irreverent anti-Kremlin protest at Moscow's main cathedral in 2012.
Yekaterina Samutsevich, a third member of Pussy Riot was released several months later on a suspended sentence.
They were both granted amnesty last week in a move largely viewed as the Kremlin's attempt to soothe criticism of Russia's human rights record before the Sochi Games in February.
The amnesty, part of a wide measure passed last week by the parliament and President Vladimir Putin's pardoning last week of onetime oil tycoon and political rival Mikhail Khodorkovsky freed
some of the most prominent convicts who were sentenced in politically-tainted cases.
But it also gives them new freedom to launch criticism of Putin's Russia amid intense attention from international news media.
The pardons could help repair some of the damage to Russia's image before the Winter Olympics in February.
However, it doesn't ease tensions with the West over Ukraine and other issues including gay rights.


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