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Former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, for whom the cage where Pussy Riot now stand trial was built, has penned an article in the Guardian in which he compares their court case to a ‘medieval inquisition’.  Pop icon Madonna, on tour in Russia, has told the press that the imprisonment of the girls would be a ‘tragedy’.  In an attempt ‘to give a bit of extra attention’ to the legal assault on the anti-Putin punks, British Shadow Chancellor Kerry McCarthy has attended their trial.  Meanwhile the judge has refused to permit the defense to question the co-author of an expert opinion that deemed their ‘punk prayer’ was motivated by religious hatred.  A Moscow court has fined two musicians 1,000 rubles each after police accused them of hooliganism for singing a Kremlin-critical song at a Moscow charity concert.