Russian investigators say a suspect in the killing of two women in the city of Kazan tried to mislead police by writing a message at the crime scene about the Pussy Riot feminist punk band.
The bodies of the women -- a 38-year-old and her 76-year-old mother -- were found on August 30 in their apartment near a message reading "Free Pussy Riot!" that had been scrawled, presumably in blood, on the wall.
Investigators have named the suspect as Igor Danilevsky, a 38-year-old Kazan university lecturer, and said he wrote the Pussy Riot message in an attempt to make it look like a "ritual" killing.
Three members of Pussy Riot were convicted and sentenced to two years in jail earlier this month for "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred" over a February protest against President Vladimir Putin that they carried out in the main Russian Orthodox cathedral in Moscow.
Their sentencing has drawn international condemnation.
The bodies of the women -- a 38-year-old and her 76-year-old mother -- were found on August 30 in their apartment near a message reading "Free Pussy Riot!" that had been scrawled, presumably in blood, on the wall.
Investigators have named the suspect as Igor Danilevsky, a 38-year-old Kazan university lecturer, and said he wrote the Pussy Riot message in an attempt to make it look like a "ritual" killing.
Three members of Pussy Riot were convicted and sentenced to two years in jail earlier this month for "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred" over a February protest against President Vladimir Putin that they carried out in the main Russian Orthodox cathedral in Moscow.
Their sentencing has drawn international condemnation.
