After Russian punk protest group Pussy Riot stated that two of its members had gone missing after being "detained" by Russia's security agency in Crimea, they were reported “safe” after being “detained several times” on social media. In the initial post, the band said two members—Olya Borisova and Sasha Sofeev—had “disappeared” after being detained by the FSB; the modern successor to the KGB. Alongside a photo of the two missing members, the band wrote: “Two Pussy Riot members are missing. Olya Borisova & Sasha Sofeev disappeared in Crimea yesterday. FSB detained them several times. Yesterday cops broke their phones and computers. We can not reach out to them. We don't know what has happened to them.” A report on Radio Free Europe claims members of the band were in Crimea to protest in support of Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov who was sentenced to 20 years in prison on charges of plotting terrorist acts in a trial condemned by the U.S. and the European Union.
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