Missing Pussy Riot Inmate Feared to Be in Deep Siberia

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot - Photo by Natalia Kolesnikova AFP/Getty Images
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot - Photo by Natalia Kolesnikova AFP/Getty Images
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot
– Photo by Natalia Kolesnikova AFP/Getty Images

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November 5, 2013 4:35 PM ET

Jailed Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova is being relocated thousands of miles to a prison colony deep in Siberia, according to her husband Peter Verzilov. Tolokonnikova has been missing for 17 days, since she vanished into the Russian prison system to be transferred to an unknown camp. Verzilov says she is now en route to the city of Krasnoyarsk, 2,600 miles east of Moscow, in the heart of Siberia.

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“It’s 100 percent that it’s Krasnoyarsk region,” Verzilov told Rolling Stone by phone, saying the information came from a source in Russia’s prison administration.

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