It's time now to wrap up the live blog. There will soon be a longer read from our Moscow correspondent up online.

In the meantime here is a summary of today's events:

• Three members of Punk feminist protest band Pussy Riot have been found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred in a Moscow court after their performance in February inside a Russian Orthodox cathedral .

• Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 23, Maria Alekhina, 24, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, 29 were sentenced to two years in prison - the minimum sentence for such an offence open to the courts.

• In sentencing the judge argued that bands' feminist beliefs were part of encouraging religious hatred.

• There were protests outside the courts and world chess Grand Master, turned politician Gary Kasparov was arrested along with opposition politician, Sergei Udaltsov.

• Amnesty and Human Rights watch have both condemned the verdict whilst the Russian Orthodox church has called on the government to show "mercy".

• After the sentencing, Pussy Riot released a new single, Putin Lights up the Fires.