Bjork invites Pussy Riot to collaborate

Bjork has written a public defence of Russian punk band Pussy Riot.

In February, the band - made up of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, Yekaterina Samutsevich, 29, and Maria Alekhina, 24 - played an anti-Putin 'punk prayer' in a Moscow cathedral. It asked the Virgin Mary to remove Putin from power.

A month later, charged with hooliganism motivated by religious hatred or hostility. The trio have pleaded not guilty.

"As a musician and mother I would like to express I fiercely don’t ...

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