U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power (L) meets (L-R) Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova of the Russian dissident band Pussy Riot and Nadezha's husband Pyotr Verzilov at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in New York February 5, 2014. REUTERS/Louis Charbonneau
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power on Wednesday discussed "disturbing" trends in Russia with members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot, prompting Moscow's U.N. envoy to ask if she was joining the group.
Power, who was well known for her own human rights activism before she joined the first administration of U.S. President Barack Obama after his 2008 election, met with Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina. The pair are due to speak at an all-star concert in the New York borough of Brooklyn on Wednesday night.
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