It turns out that with the newfound fame as international human rights spokespersons, Maria Alyokhhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova have alienated their former musical group members, who now feel the pair have strayed from the movement's original goals.

Six of the members of the Russian punk rock group known as Pussy Riot have decided to write a letter stating that they may no longer be listed as members of their group. In the letter, the collective accuses the two former members of no longer meeting up to the "aspirations and ideals of [the] group."

The two newly disenfranchised members had performed with Madonna during a concert in New York this past Wednesday. These were the same two members who had previously -- and famously -- been jailed two years ago for doing a protest song at a cathedral in Moscow in 2012, having just been freed this past December.

The two, who go by the aliases "Masha" and "Nadia," spent 16 months in prison altogether. The other six members, known as "Garadja," "Fara," "Shaiba," "Cat," "Seraphima," and "Schimacher" to protect their anonymity, all signed the letter. They also criticized the pair for showing up at an Amnesty International event in New York.

The group intends to be a leftist and anti-capitalist whereas the two exiled members have become "institutionalized advocates of prisoners' rights". The letter said "Unfortunately for us, they are being so carried away with the problems in Russian prisons, that they completely forgot about the aspirations and ideals of our group -- feminism, separatist resistance, fight against authoritarianism and personality cult, all of which, as a matter of fact, was the cause for their unjust punishment."

"Our performances are always 'illegal,' staged only in unpredictable locations and public places not designed for traditional entertainment," they declared.

The letter written was not entirely harsh: "Yes, we lost two friends, two ideological fellow member (sic), but the world has acquired two brave, interesting, controversial human rights defenders -- fighters for the rights of the Russian prisoners."

"Unfortunately, we cannot congratulate them with this in person, because they refuse to have any contact with us."