In the documentary, Pussy Riot–A Punk Prayer, which just premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, we see how a small group of women who are tired and angry about Putin's autocratic hold on their country used protest art to test the limits of free speech in Russia. While they, unfortunately, found out what that limit is, through their eloquence and courage they also have shined a light on the hypocrisy of so-called democratic Russia. The purpose of their February 21, 2012 arrest may have been to intimidate those who want to protest Putin, in actuality the trial of Pussy Riot has shined a light on the grip Putin and his cronies have on Russian society.

Israel has admitted for the first time that it has been giving Ethiopian Jewish immigrants birth-control injections, often without their knowledge or consent. The government had previously denied the practice but the Israeli Health Ministry's director-general has now ordered gynaecologists to stop administering the drugs. According a report in Haaretz, suspicions were first raised by an investigative journalist, Gal Gabbay, who interviewed more than 30 women from Ethiopia in an attempt to discover why birth rates in the community had fallen dramatically.