Pussy Riot’s Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Is Now In Alatyr Prison Camp

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Pussy Riot’s Nadezhda Tolokonnikova was moved over the past weekend to a new detention camp in Alatyr in the Russian republic of Chuvashia, her husband said via Twitter today (Wednesday, October 23, 2013), RIA Novosti reported.

Tolokonnikova’s husband Pyotr Verzilov said his wife is now in Penal Colony No. 2 in the town of Alatyr.

Alatyr is about 500 miles east of Moscow.

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