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At 9:00 a.m. on 17 August 2012 I arrived at the Khamovnichevskii District Court in Moscow, where three members of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot were to be sentenced for ‘criminal hooliganism’. Although my hotel was within reasonable walking distance of the courthouse, I was unable to find it (even using Google Maps) until a growing police presence led me to the site. The geographical puzzle is surely deliberate: located on an obscure cross street in a seemingly upmarket residential neighbourhood, the courthouse is visually unexceptional, easily barricaded, and difficult for an uninitiated visitor to discover.
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Schuler, C. (2015). Reinventing the Show Trial: Putin and Pussy Riot. In: Flynn, A., Tinius, J. (eds) Anthropology, Theatre, and Development. Anthropology, Change and Development. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137350602_13
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