Police officers and Pussy Riot punk band members Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, right, near Moscow's Zamoskvoretsky Court where verdict on the case of riots on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012 will be announced.

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Police officers detain Pussy Riot punk band members Maria Alyokhina, left, and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, right, near Moscow's Zamoskvoretsky Court where verdict on the case of riots on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012 will be announced.

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Police officers detain Nadezhda Tolokonnikova near Moscow's Zamoskvoretsky Court. The court is expected to announce the sentence in the case of mass riots on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012.

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Police officers detain Pussy Riot band members Maria Alyokhina, left, and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova near Moscow's Zamoskvoretsky Court. The court is expected to announce the sentence in the case of mass riots on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012.

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RPR-Parnas party co-chairman Boris Nemtsov seen near Moscow's Zamoskvoretsky Court. The court is expected to announce the sentence in the case of mass riots on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012.

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Police officers detain opposition leader Ilya Yashin near Moscow's Zamoskvoretsky Court. The court is expected to announce the sentence in the case of mass riots on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012.

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Lyudmila Alexeyeva, head of the Moscow Helsinki Group, seen near Moscow's Zamoskvoretsky Court. The court is expected to announce the sentence in the case of mass riots on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012.

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Lyudmila Alexeyeva, head of the Moscow Helsinki Group, seen near Moscow's Zamoskvoretsky Court. The court is expected to announce the sentence in the case of mass riots on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012.

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Police officers detain opposition leader Ilya Yashin near Moscow's Zamoskvoretsky Court. The court is expected to announce the sentence in the case of mass riots on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012.

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Police officers detain politician Alexei Navalny near Moscow's Zamoskvoretsky Court. The court is expected to announce the sentence in the case of mass riots on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012.

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Yaroslav Belousov, a defendant in the case of mass riots on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012, as the sentence is announced at Moscow's Zamoskvoretsky Court.

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Artyom Savelov, a defendant in the case of mass riots on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012, as the sentence is announced at Moscow's Zamoskvoretsky Court.

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Defendants in the case of mass riots on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012, from left: Yaroslav Belousov, Sergei Krivov and Artyom Savelov as their sentence is announced at Moscow's Zamoskvoretsky Court.

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Andrei Barabanov, a defendant in the case of mass riots on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012, as the sentence is announced at Moscow's Zamoskvoretsky Court.

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Defendants in the case of mass riots on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012, from right: Alexei Polikhovich and Denis Lutskevich, as the sentence is announced at Moscow's Zamoskvoretsky Court.

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Alexei Polikhovich, a defendant in the case of mass riots on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012, as the sentence is announced at Moscow's Zamoskvoretsky Court.

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Defendants in the case of mass riots on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012, from right: Stepan Zimin, Alexei Polikhovich, Denis Lutskevich and Andrei Barabanov as their sentence is announced at Moscow's Zamoskvoretsky Court.

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