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Since July 30, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Yekatrina Samutsevich and Maria Alyokhina, three bright, intelligent women in their twenties, have been at the centre of a show trial. In a tiny Moscow courtroom, in a glass cage that has become known as the "Aquarium", they stand accused of "hooliganism" and inciting "religious hatred".