NEW : Samutsevich has `` mixed feelings '' about being free while her friends remain in prison . She is not sure if she will be able to return home and live a normal life, or whether it would be better for them all to stay behind bars. ` We are not finished , nor are we going to end our political protest , '' she says . The court upheld 2-year sentences for Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina . The Russian punk band members were sentenced in August for performing a song critical of President Vladimir Putin in one of the Russian Orthodox Church 's most important cathedrals in February . The sentence is linked to their performance of a song critical of President Vladimir Putin .
NEW : Samutsevich has `` mixed feelings '' about being free while her friends remain in prison . She is not sure if she will be able to return home and live a normal life, or whether it would be better for them all to stay behind bars. ` We are not finished , nor are we going to end our political protest , '' she says . The court upheld 2-year sentences for Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina . The sentence is linked to their performance of a song critical of President Vladimir Putin .