Well this is an unexpected but pleasant bit of news: noted group sex-loving hard ass Vladimir Putin has apparently given his puppet, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, the go-ahead to signal that Pussy Riot may soon be freed from prison after recently being sentenced for two years behind bars for "hooliganism," aka making fun of Putin in song in front of a church.

In honor of Pussy Riot, the Russian punk collective that's awaiting sentencing in Moscow, a collection of some great riot grrrl songs.

A while back we told you about Pussy Riot, the feminist punk-rock collective based in Russia who managed to piss off that country's notoriously dickish President, Vladimir Putin, by daring to make an anti-Putin song. This morning they were convicted of "hooliganism" in a joke of a court proceeding and now face 3 years in prison, according to various news reports.

A Russian punk band faces up to seven years in prison, all because they played an anti-government and -religion song.