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Originally Posted by CyberSEO
Actually this is not the end. Just wait a bit and you'll see: Putin will give them a personal pardon (as a president). That's just a game. Pussy Riot wanted to be famous dancing in church, Putin want to earn some political benefits on their action. The result: both sides are happy.
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That's how I saw this playing out as well.
Putin had already signaled as much by going on the record with words to the effect that they "shouldn't be punished too harshly".
But now I'm not so sure.
If the public pressure get's too intense, Putin will likely leave them in jail (for the short term at least) so as not to be perceived as having caved in to the same.
It's like that tennis player used to say: Image is everything.