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Pussy Riot members Veronika Nikulschina (center) and Nadeschda Tolokonnikowa 2018 in Berlin
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The Russian punk band Pussy Riot is repeatedly the target of state repression.
Another band member has now been arrested in Moscow.
Veronika Nikulschina was accused of not following the police's orders, her lawyer told the state news agency Ria Novosti.
"Veronica was taken to the police."
According to media reports, the activist sees her arrest in connection with shooting a film scheduled for this Friday.
Authorities believed she was planning an action, she said.
The dress rehearsal for the military parade in memory of the end of World War II 76 years ago took place in Moscow on Friday.
The parade is scheduled to take place in two days.
House arrest after alleged corona violations
Pussy Riot always causes a stir with radical actions.
Nikulschina had only been fined six months ago for hoisting rainbow flags on buildings belonging to Russian authorities with another member of the punk band.
The pussy riot activist Marija Aljochina was placed under house arrest at the beginning of January for allegedly violating corona requirements.
Pussy Riot became known worldwide, among other things, through an action in 2012. At that time, several members of the band performed in front of the altar of Moscow's Savior Cathedral with a »punk prayer« against the alliance of church and state.
Several members were therefore imprisoned in penal colonies for months.
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