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The website of  the Moscow district court that sentenced three members of the band Pussy Riot to jail has been attacked by hackers posting anti-Putin messages. As well as the anti-Putin slogan Anonymous Russia posted an appeal for the band’s release as well as a video clip of one of the band’s songs.The slogan read: “ Putin’s thieving gang is plundering our country, wake up comrades! ”     In a message posted on the website, the hackers said the in Russian that :  We are American group Anonymous. We don’t forget and we don’t forgive. Justice system has to be transparent. Pussy [Riot's members] are alive.   Another caption called for the release of the band’s jailed members - Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, Marina Alyokhina, 24, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, 30. Jude Marina Syrova said that the women had grossly violated public order and “ deeply insulted the faith of the believers with their disrespectful criminal act ” when the...

A group of hackers calling themselves the Russian branch of the Anonymous Movement promised to launch cyber attacks on the websites of the Russian state agencies to support the opposition. The hackers announced their intent by posting videos on two micro-blogs. In these videos they said that the Russian government website will be subjected to DDOS attack on May 6, and on May 7 the same will happen with the prime minister’s site. May 7 is the day when Prime Minister and President-elect Vladimir Putin will be inaugurated as the President of Russian Federation. The hackers said that the attacks will be held in support of the “mass rally against the illegitimate elections, ” apparently meaning the 5000-strong opposition rally, dubbed by the media as the March of Millions. “We will support this protest by switching off the state websites that are full of lies, and the website of the Russian government will be the first. Let these civil servants see the love of the people...