Pussy Riot takes on Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen.

Byline: Eric Heisig

I didn't think Pussy Riot even knew that Wisconsin existed. I guess I was wrong.

The punk protestors, which have endured prison and beatings from their efforts opposing Russian President Vladimir Putin, appeared in a video from The Voice Project for a movement it calls #SolidarityWisconsin.

It asks Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen to drop charges against hundreds of people who were arrested by Capitol Police last summer and charged for participating in singing protests. The six-minute video features clips of the protest, as well as Capitol Police arresting those who are participating.

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Pussy Riot members Nadya Tolokonnikova and Masha Alyokhina said in the video, "Use music to change the world in the direction you want it to change, because music touches people and makes them act."

A news release from the group's public relations firm puts the number at arrests at more than 400, though the Dane County Clerk of Court's office said Tuesday that 357 cases were filed in relation to those protests.

Many of those cases are still pending, and several have requested jury trials.

In an email attributed to Van Hollen spokeswoman Dana Brueck, she gave no indication that the attorney general accepted the assertions made in the video.

In turn, she offered her own arguments:

According to the email, "Unlike...