Yekaterina Samutsevich, a member of punk group Pussy Riot, smiles during an interview in front of the Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow, February 21, 2013. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A member of the Pussy Riot punk band has called for a boycott of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi to oppose what she called a campaign of "tightening the screws" against opponents of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Yekaterina Samutsevich, who was freed after serving several months of a two-year jail sentence over a protest against Putin in a Russian Orthodox church, likened the situation to the run-up to the 1980 Moscow Olympics, boycotted by dozens of nations.
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