he Moscow City Court will hear the appeal against the Pussy Riot punk band sentence on October 1, Moscow Khamovnichesky District Court press secretary Darya Lyakh told Interfax.

"The Moscow City Court will hear on October 1 the Pussy Riot defense's appeal against the two-year sentence on Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina and Yekaterina Samutsevich passed by the Moscow Khamovnichesky District Court," Lyakh said.

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