Two members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot have been released from prison under an amnesty introduced by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Maria Alyokhina, 25, and 24-year-old Nadezhda Tolokonnikova were serving two-year sentences.
They were convicted of hooliganism for performing a crude "punk prayer" in a cathedral against Mr Putin's ties to the Russian Orthodox church.
They had been due for release in March, but qualified for the amnesty proposed by Mr Putin, in part because both are mothers of small children.
A third band member had her sentence suspended earlier this year.
Lawyers say the amnesty will also enable 30 people arrested in a Greenpeace protest against Arctic oil drilling to avoid trial - removing an irritant in ties with the West before Russia hosts the Winter Olympics in February.
Mr Putin has said the amnesty, passed to mark the 20th anniversary of Russia's post-Soviet constitution, was not drafted with the Greenpeace activists or Pussy Riot in mind.
Tolokonnikova's father Andrei said yesterday that the planned release of the band members was clearly a public relations move ahead of the Olympics.
"It is an absolutely cynical game of the central authorities," he said while awaiting her release from jail in the Siberian region of Krasnoyarsk.
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