Pussy Riot Protesters Cleared of Religious Hatred Charge

Two women from Russia's Pussy Riot protest group who were jailed for a song deriding President Vladimir Putin were cleared in a Moscow court on Friday of inciting religious hatred.   But the court knocked only one month off their two-year sentences, upholding a charge of hooliganism.   Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova spent nearly two years in prison after performing a protest song against Putin in Moscow's main cathedral in 2012.   Many in the West...

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