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Anderson Cooper 360

Pussy Riot’s Masha Alyokhina Says She Escaped Russia

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Masha Alyokhina, the leader of the performance art group Pussy Riot, says she escaped Russia. She was sentenced to two years in prison in 2012 for “hooliganism” after staging a protest against Russia President Vladimir Putin and has been arrested six times since last summer. She reveals details on her daring escape to Anderson Cooper. Plus, a passenger with no flying experience landed a plane after the pilot had “gone incoherent.” CNN Aerospace Analyst Miles O’Brien joins AC360 to discuss the unusual situation.   To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good evening for the first time since the war in Ukraine began almost 11 weeks ago.

0:04.6

Russian civilian inside Russia has been reported killed.

0:08.2

Russian official says this occurred in the village in the Belgorod region that area is

0:12.2

about 6 miles from the Ukrainian border near Ukraine's second largest city, Kharkiv.

0:18.0

Kharkiv has been repeatedly jealous, you know, and there has been intense fighting in

0:20.9

areas around the city.

0:22.4

In just the last several days, Ukrainian officials say they've liberated a number of towns in

0:26.7

villages near Kharkiv.

0:29.0

Russian officials say the region where they reported the civilian killed has seen several

0:32.6

explosions in recent weeks.

0:34.5

The cause, they say, were missiles and bombs.

0:36.7

Now Ukraine has not confirmed nor denied responsibility for the blasts.

0:41.4

Another major development today, a possible step toward Finland joining NATO.

0:45.7

Its president and Britain's prime minister agreed to assist each other at militarily

0:49.2

should either country face attack.

0:51.3

Finland shares a roughly 800 mile border with Russia, which has threatened military and

0:55.6

political consequences should Finland or Sweden actually join NATO.

1:00.7

This was the message from Finland's president to Vladimir Putin should that happen.

1:05.8

If that would be the case that we join, well my response would be that you cost this.

1:15.4

Look at the mirror.

1:17.5

So there's a lot to get to tonight, including a one-on-one interview with one of Vladimir

1:20.5

Putin's most high profile critics who's just made a daring escape from Russia, should

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