Moscow, Sova Centre
07/06/2012
 
On June 5, Mark Feigin, counsel to Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, posted on his blog that Russian authorities decided on May 28 to prosecute his client under Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code (hooliganism committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy of hate) over her alleged participation in Pussy Riot's punk prayer at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow. The indictment includes troubling passages that seem to be in direct conflict with elements of the Russian Constitution.
 

Dear Dmitry Anatoliyevich!
 
I would like to take the opportunity to address you through the friends-journalists and tell you the following. Two of my friends and I have been in detention facility N6 on charges of article 213 part 2 in connection with events in the Temple of Christ the Saviour on 21 February 2012.  Neither my efforts, nor the efforts of my lawyers led to a change of preventive punishment in the form of detention. The law against me is quite definitely violated. Court, the investigation, as well as law enforcement system are deaf to reasonable arguments about my state of health, the fact of separation from my daughter -  all that require my immediate release. The two months that my friends and I have spent in detention are ample punishment for our alleged conduct.
 

Here is the answer Pussy Riot gave on the comment of D. Medvedev that the members of the group achieved their goal from the TV interview of the Russian President given to the Russian journalists for five TV channels on April 26 2012.
 The answer was written after the President refused to consider the evident violation of the principles of the law in the Pussy Riot case. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Aliokhina, who are kept imprisoned in jail “Pechatniki”, tried to draw his attention by brief notes before.

“Freedom is when you forget the father’s name of the tyrant”
Josef Brodsky, 1975

“Freedom is a unique feeling, which is different for each person”
D. Medvedev, 26.04.2012

Dmitry Anatolyevich!

The Letter written by N. Tolokonniokova in which she outlines the problematics of Gender Equality and other fundamental freedoms in frames of ethical consensus monopolized by the Russian Orthodox Church and the Russian State, absent the plurality of the people of Russia and incarceration of Pussy Riot, as its main actors.