Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina of the Pussy Riot fame have been sacked by bandmates after they reportedly showed up on Stephen Colbert's comedy talk-show The Colbert Report.
The controversial members of the Russian anti-establishment group are on a US visit to draw attention to their new campaign for the rights of prisoners worldwide, which seems to have annoyed their anonymous Pussy Riot bandmates, resulting in their expulsion from the group.
In a letter published on the Pussy Riot blog, and signed by six other members under the names of Cat, Garadzha, Fara, Shayba, Serafima and Shumakher , the group said that selling concert tickets using the collective's name was "highly contradictory to the principles of Pussy Riot, the Independent reported.
The pair was recently freed from a Russian jail after two years for their part in staging an anti-Putin "punk prayer" at a Moscow cathedral in 2012.
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