Overview

• Maria Alyokhina received 13 years and Taso Pletner 11 years, while Olga Borisova, Diana Burkot and Alina Petrova were each given eight-year terms, according to the Basmanny District Court.
• Prosecutors cited a December 2022 music video, “Mama, Don’t Watch TV,” as spreading knowingly false information about the Russian Armed Forces.
• Charges also referenced an April 2024 performance in Munich during which a member urinated on a portrait of Vladimir Putin.
• All five were tried and sentenced in absentia and have been placed on international wanted lists, Russian authorities said.
• The defendants, through their lawyers, reject the verdicts as politically motivated and remain outside Russia.