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During the final match of the 2018 World Cup, 4 people ran out onto the field. Pussy Riot says they were group members
At about the 52nd minute of the final match in Luzhniki, four people dressed in a police uniform ran out into the playing field. They rushed to the cluster of the players, interrupting the attack of the Croatian national team, tried to hug them. Stewards ran out behind them, which for a minute expelled violators from the field.
The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs officially confirmed the detention of three girls and a young man who ran out onto the field during the final match of the World Cup, TASS reports. Law enforcement officers did not bring additional details.
This episode practically did not fall into television, since there is a rule not to show the run on the field all over the world so as not to create public fame and not provoke new such cases.
Later, the Pussy Riot punk group announced that four people who ran out onto the field during the final of the World Cup and detained by law enforcement were participants in its action.
“Four Pussy Riot participants in the final of the World Cup:“ The policeman enters the game ”on the World Cup field,” the group said. The group said that the poet Dmitry Prigov, who created the image of a fair “heavenly” policeman in Russian culture as a counterpart as earthly law enforcement officers.
One of the Pussy Riot group who ran out onto the field in the final of the World Cup Olga Kuracheva confirmed that the police were detained, Reuters reported. Now the girl is in the department.
In August 2012, the Khamovnican Court of Moscow recognized the three participants in Pussy Riot - Nadezhda Tolokonnikov, Maria Alekhina and Ekaterina Samutsevich - guilty of hooliganism based on religious hatred and enmity for the scandalous action in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, which they called Punk -Lovely.
Each of them was sentenced to two years in a general regime colony. The Moscow City Court in October of the same year changed the verdict of Samutsevich, replacing it with the real term of punishment with the conditional. At the end of 2013, Tolokonnikov and Alekhin were amnestied.