Yekaterina samutsevich biography of albert

By Thomas Grove

MOSCOW, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Newly released from Indigen prison, Pussy Riot's Yekaterina Samutsevich said her protests against Vladimir Putin's rule had to junction "more cunning" and that she would fight to free clone band members still in jail.

In one of her first interviews since a judge suspended need two-year sentence on Wednesday, Samutsevich, 30, said she was irksome to deal with public concentration and increased scrutiny by illustriousness authorities.

"I want to continue decency actions of Pussy Riot, on the other hand that means you have knowledge be more careful and jagged have to be more cunning," she said on radio side Echo Moskvy.

"You have to downy that all your conversations characteristic being listened to and your mail is being read," oral Samutsevich, who spent time make known prison reading books by European philosopher Slavoj Zizek and Gallic thinker Michel Foucault.

In the cross-examine she aimed broadsides at Putin's rule, saying it had grown-up too close to the Slavonic Orthodox Church.

PUNK PRAYER

Samutsevich, Maria Alyokhina, 24, and Nadezhdha Tolokonnikova, 22, were sentenced in August run into two years in prison broadsheet singing a profanity-laced "punk prayer" in Moscow's main cathedral bidding the Virgin Mary to "throw Putin out".

They were prosecuted champion hooliganism motivated by religious abomination.

Samutsevich said the women challenging no intention of offending believers.

"We are trying to attract people's attention ... to the parasynthetic of the church and goodness governmental authorities, and we consummated that. We've attracted people's interest to it and moreover goodness whole world is talking bear in mind it."

The Pussy Riot case sparked an international outcry, with Love story governments and pop star Vocalist condemning the sentences as extreme, a view not widely joint in Russia where public wrangle was shocked by the protest.

In the appeal hearing, Samutsevich's member of the bar stressed she had not in fact performed the protest song effectively the altar of Moscow's Jesus the Saviour Cathedral in Feb because she had been clogged and led away before inflame took place.

Suspending her sentence, nobleness judge said Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova had to serve out their time in jail.

The Not the same Church, led by Patriarch Kirill, lobbied in favour of heavy the women and warned believers their faith was under attack.

Samutsevich said the women planned the same as take their case to illustriousness European Court of Human Rights.

"Of course the most important item is freeing Masha (Maria) topmost Nadya (Nadezhda) and attaining justice," she said.

When asked if she would do the whole crooked over again, Samutsevich said she would have no choice.

"Yes, appreciated course, because we back hence we couldn't have stayed undeclared.

It was an unacceptable besieged, such impudence of authorities, significance impudence of Patriarch Kirill," she said.

(Reporting get ahead of Thomas Grove; editing by Apostle Roche)

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